Band Quotes

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

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.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

I thought eventually I'd have a family and I really didn't want to be a loser like that guy in his 40s still shopping his band's shitty demo tapes around.

I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.