Band Quotes

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

I feel that energy up there on stage. The band, the crew and our road family - the look in their eyes - they're so happy to be back doing what we love to do.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like. I just like to fantasize that he would like our band and he would know what we were up to.

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.