Band Quotes

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.

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.

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 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.

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

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

I don't ever really list things that I want to do. The only two things that I've ever wanted to do are be in a rock band and be a wrestler. Those were my two goals.

We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.

But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.

I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van?

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA