Band Quotes

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

I don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.

I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.

I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.