Band Quotes

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

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

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.

I think what's cool about about going on a co-headline tour is everyone's bringing a huge show, so it's not like opening band, opening band, then here's the big show. It's like two big shows.

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

I won't join another band again.

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

Im 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.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.