Band Quotes

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

I don't know a lot about New Zealand except that it is beautiful! All of my friends in bands who have toured there have said great things about it so I hope I can go perform there soon!

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say "Well the album is everything we need. Thanks band. You can go away now."

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.

I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

Depeche Mode doesn't mean anything, nor does Eurythmics. Band names aren't supposed to mean anything. I wanted something that wasn't English, and you couldn't get more English than "Elly Jackson."

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.

The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

Being in this band [the Spice Girls] is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.