Band Quotes

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

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

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

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

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.

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

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

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

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

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.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.

We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!

My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?" "Shut up, Garett." "Yes, ma'am.

Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.