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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. -- David Lee Roth
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long. -- Ikue Mori
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum. -- Steve Albini
I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested. -- Courtney Barnett
I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever! -- Jesse Ventura
I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. -- Michael Moore
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 have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have. -- Gary Cherone
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands. -- Dimebag Darrell
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. -- Al Jourgensen
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 was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music. -- Reggie Watts
I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it. -- Michael Franti
Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see. -- Sebastian Bach
Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame. -- Tyler Hilton
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre. -- Samantha Barks
Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot. -- David Coverdale
Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one. -- Peter Capaldi
The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles. -- Jon Landau
For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. -- Henry Rollins
I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started young and got to grade seven. When I turned 13, everyone started whipping out guitars, looking cool and joining rock bands, so I stopped playing. -- Douglas Booth
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. -- Mayer Hawthorne
When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter? -- Trent Reznor
I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid. -- Nate Ruess
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. -- Moby
When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have. -- Zedd
I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories. -- Art Alexakis
I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though. -- DJ Khaled
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum -- Steve Albini
Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is. -- Ricki-Lee Coulter
In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands. -- Adam Sandler
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. -- Dave Grohl
It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day. -- Jonathan Davis
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. -- Sheryl Crow
I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands. -- Girl Talk
We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there. -- Mike Lowry
I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it. -- Fred Durst
I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll. -- Bon Scott
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing. -- Britt Daniel
People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization. -- Jonathan Haidt
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands. -- Tim Heidecker
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school. -- Loudon Wainwright III
A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been. -- Billy Corgan
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. -- Henry Rollins
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. -- Chuck Eddy
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands. -- Tim Heidecker
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life. -- Dave Grohl
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich. -- Bob Geldof
The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard. -- Buzz Osborne
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. -- Shane West
It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. -- Chuck Klosterman
You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors. -- Ray Manzarek
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. -- Steven Van Zandt
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
I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. -- Ato Essandoh
My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players. -- Chico Hamilton
Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. -- Steven Van Zandt
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll. -- Dave Grohl
We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway. -- Adam Rich
Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that. -- Patrick Carney
I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting. -- Justin Vernon
My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school. -- Miles Teller
I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know. -- Brian Johnson
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records. -- Dave Grohl
I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands. -- Marisa Miller
The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters. -- Colin Greenwood
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. -- Bruce Dickinson
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences. -- Steve Albini
Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there. -- Nikki Sixx
I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all. -- Matt Tong
I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming. -- Brian Dietzen
Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team. -- Gene Simmons
With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience. It's not something a whole lot of rock bands do. -- Dylan Baldi
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager. -- Dave Grohl
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world. -- Adam Rich

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