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Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never. -- Brad Paisley
I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.' -- Carmen Electra
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty. -- Carrie Brownstein
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. -- Carrie Brownstein
With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song. -- Carrie Brownstein
I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic. -- Elizabeth Banks
My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night. -- Jeff Kinney
I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us. -- Steve Brown
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot. -- Stone Gossard
It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band. -- Gerard Way
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. -- Dave Grohl
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. -- Rob Sheffield
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar. -- Ian Mcewan
I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. -- Bridget Hall
Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally. -- Travis Barker
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. -- Henry Rollins
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. -- Ritchie Blackmore
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that? -- Win Butler
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit. -- Rick Astley
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time. -- Pink
This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer. -- Charisma Carpenter
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band. -- Gene Simmons
The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on. -- Brad Delson
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves. -- James Young
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals. -- Gerard Butler
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. -- Moby
We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band. -- Frank Iero
I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. -- Simon Cowell
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things. -- Dexter Holland
There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's. -- Taylor Hanson
With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two years and became popular there. A guy representing a rock band came to our show in Budapest, saw 60,000 people get excited for a band from America that nobody in America knew, and told someone at RCA. -- JC Chasez
Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". -- Mike Huckabee
Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band. -- Ann Wilson
Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing. -- Vivian Campbell
I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band. -- Dee Dee Ramone
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. -- Bruce Springsteen
Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band. -- Corey Taylor
Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock. -- Ann Wilson
Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand. -- Rod Stewart
I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s. -- Huey Lewis
Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world. -- Joey Ramone
Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now. -- Alice Cooper
Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job -- Billy Corgan
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over. -- Ikue Mori
I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements. -- Scott Bakula
Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else. -- Walter Martin
If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys. -- Daron Malakian
The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it. -- Dan Auerbach
I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for? -- Eddie Van Halen
If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment. -- Douglas Booth
I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band. -- Bruce Springsteen
I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy. -- Jessica Pare
With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of. -- Chris Shiflett
Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world, -- Patrick Carney
I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock. -- Greg Evigan
I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them... -- Ace Hood
Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world. -- Patrick Carney
The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today -- Jack White
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years. -- John Grogan
I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously. -- Colin Hay
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals! -- Bill Bruford
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band. -- Brooke Burke
We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant. -- David Johansen
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. -- Bruce Springsteen
When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. -- Moby
It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about. -- Steve Brown
I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star. -- Sunny Mabrey
The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it. -- Phil Collins
If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band? -- Steve Turner
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll. -- Amanda Palmer
The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician. -- Chad Kroeger
The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine. -- Paul Stanley
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience -- Anthony Kiedis
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. -- Paul Stanley
I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. -- Bob Dylan
The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself. -- Bruce Springsteen
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it. -- Colin Stetson
Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums. -- Psy
Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money. -- Jon Anderson
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'. -- Steve Brown
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out. -- Steven Adler
When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band. -- Phil Ehart
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things. -- Tom Wopat
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses. -- Alessandro Nivola
Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band. -- John Coltrane
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is. -- Lindsey Haun
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time. -- Lance Loud
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the Luddites. Im happiest when Im behind the kit. -- Rick Astley
Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds. -- Neko Case
Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men. -- Grace Slick
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. -- Oscar Isaac
I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure. -- Jorja Fox
My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band. -- Nick Jonas
I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever. -- Max Weinberg
On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. -- Israelmore Ayivor
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17. -- Kreayshawn
People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! -- Amy Lee
I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family. -- Bruno Mars
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. -- Joan Jett
I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques -- Steve Albini
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played. -- Levon Helm
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. -- Paul Westerberg
I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic. -- Luke Haines
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference. -- Greg Lake
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in. -- Billy Bragg
With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make. -- Serj Tankian
You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise. -- Billy Corgan
After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me. -- Chad Kroeger
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. -- Bobby Vinton
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. -- Malcolm Mclaren
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart. -- John Cho
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. -- Moira Kelly
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting. -- Freddie Mercury
Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. -- Henry Rollins
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of. -- Jon Lord
If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band. -- Nikki Sixx
When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it. -- Craig Finn

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