Band Quotes

When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.

If I'll be a President the inaugural balls will be replaced with an inaugural Rock Band party. For expert-level players only. Don't even think about getting on drums. I play drums.

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

I started in a band called Timbiriche, we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.

If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

We actually had a Kansa band softball team.

I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.