Band Quotes

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that and you just can't take it out of you that easily!

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

I think it's always good for a band to try and grow.

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.

If youd asked me after Band of Brothers what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined Southland.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the band can perform it differently, so I like the freedom of performing.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

I've learned a lot about how to be in a band. It's like being in a marriage to these people. Because there's so many of us, there's a polygamous quality to it, which I've heard is really enjoyable.

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.

It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad.

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.