Band Quotes

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.

Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.

Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

One of the things you do in a band is the more you stay together, the more you play to your strengths.

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it, which I'm sure is welcomed by the band.

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.

When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.

I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.