About Quote by Terry Kath

Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term…

— Tom Petty

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective…

— Roy Wood

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be…

— Rock Hudson

You don't accidentally turn into a big band. Not even Nirvana accidentally turned into a big band. They toured - they wanted to become…

— Tobias Forge

There's too many bands going out there with one original member and calling it by the original name.

— Marky Ramone

We knew we'd never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of…

— James Frank

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for…

— Penn Dayton Badgley

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so…

— Chris Rea

It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't…

— Brian Fallon

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock…

— Stephen Mallinder

The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon used to…

— Paul Gilbert

Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image.

— Rob Sheffield