Band Quotes
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.
I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.
Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.
I play music as much as I can. I have a band called The Abiders. We've put out a couple of albums you can find on iTunes. We tour and all that stuff, so music is very much a part of my life.
I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.
Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed to make sense to see if we could live our lives without the band.
With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.
I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands.
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.
I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.
It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?
I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.
I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.
On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.
It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.
Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?
We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.
Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.
You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.
I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.
You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.
When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.
We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.