I don't know any American rock bands.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

— Dimebag Darrell

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

— Gary Rossington

I don't listen to rock bands.

— Matty Healy

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous…

— Jon Landau

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be…

— Curt Smith

People ask me if I'm influenced by British music, and I suppose I grew up listening to mostly British music - from new wave…

— Chino Moreno

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

— David Bryan

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

— Dave Clark

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular…

— Robert Hilburn

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

— Bill Bailey

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began…

— Jon Landau

“An essential difference between British and American punk bands can be found in their respective views of rock & roll history. The British bands…

— Clinton Heylin

I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course…

— Ted Nugent

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people…

— Tobi Vail

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

— Ikue Mori