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  • 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.

    Rocks   Guitar   Years  
  • I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

    Boys   Rocks   Years  
  • I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.

    College   Rocks   Years  
  • Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

    Wise   Song   Writing  
  • Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

    Song   Rocks   Guitar  
  • I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

    Rocks   Years   Band  
  • Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

    "Rock Band vs. Real Band". www.slate.com. November 27, 2007.
  • By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

    Wise   Rocks   Band  
  • You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that's not really my approach.

    Real   Dirty   Thinking  
    "Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 16, 2012.
  • I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

    Player   Rocks   Guy  
  • 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.

    Player   Rocks   Two  
  • I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a lot less mystique in playing in a rock band today, than in the 60's or 70's. I don't think there's any bands that I can think of, that have this rock god myth that like Led Zeppelin had.

    Thinking   Rocks   People  
  • The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.

    Writing   Rocks   Band  
    "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.
  • Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

    Music   Rocks   Views  
  • Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

  • 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.

    Eye   Rocks   Long  
  • I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

    Party   Rocks   Self  
  • A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

  • I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

    Successful   Play   Rocks  
    "Ian McEwan", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
  • Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.

    Fun   Rocks   Dolls  
  • 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.

    School   Rocks   Band  
    Source: www.seventeen.com
  • Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

  • I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

    Thinking   Rocks   Band  
    "Michael Moore Takes on His Pirates!" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. June 19, 2007.
  • I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

    Children   Kids   Dark  
  • The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

    Rocks   Band   Facts  
  • I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.

    Source: www.thestarscoop.com
  • Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

    Rocks   Years   Band  
    "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.
  • I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially, I was pretending to be a photographer, simply so that I could go up to the front of the crowd and be a bit closer to the bands. But, I found I was gradually developing an interest in the photos I took.

    Rocks   Band   Crowds  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  • Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

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