Band Quotes
One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.
I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.
I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.
You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.
Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.
Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.
Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!
It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.
Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.
I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.
Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.
A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.
Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.
I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.
I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.
For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.
I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.
I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.
You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.
So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.
We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.
I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.