Sam Kinison Quotes

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

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.

I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.

Compared to EDM, I feel like there are a lot of girls at my shows.

We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

What do you know when you're 19? I was just stomping around doing gigs.

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

When we toured with AC/DC, we always had to bring our A game. They really felt like our equals.

Kasabian are wicked. They've got the hit songs, but it's the presence in the performance and the attitude with it that I love.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

I feel that it was my destiny to play with Led Zeppelin, and of course I had the chance and I did it to my best ability.

It's a big deal when you play in a rock band and you conquer Japan. You know, it's a big deal.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

To have the opportunity to bring 'Tallica Parking Lot' to life through images was really special. And also to have a lot of my heroes and my friends in the film was really, really special. People like Lemmy from Motorhead.

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.

Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.

I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.