Band Quotes

I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.

Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.

There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.

Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them.

I loved being in a band.

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.

It's the most dangerous world for bands nowadays because everybody's branding and trying to steal your vibe as soon as you do anything that anyone cares about. It's very weird.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

I'm just a wimpy baby. We almost called the band Forever Teens because I feel like we're all kind of permanently youthful.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.