Band Quotes

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.

I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

We were not a band that typically would say, "Hello, Whatever Town!"

We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

Sometimes you might be a fan of bands but you don't know where they're from.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

Blackberry Smoke is my favorite band!

I write music. I'm in a band.

You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road... Well, I can't even believe this is work.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band so everyone has their say.

Badfinger were a great band

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.