Band Quotes

Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.

Since I'm in a band, and I'm not usually in situations where I need to read, it doesn't come up as often, and I don't rely on it as much.

I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands.

A band is like a family. There's love and hate.

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing people that week.

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

Can you imagine in 1968 some band being like, "Vietnam is the place to be!"

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time.

A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.

It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

A band that cries together stays together.

I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.

Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.

The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.