Band Quotes

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob [Halford] said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but being in a band is more than playing your instrument.

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Australia is so entrenched in rock'n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me.

It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

In terms of covers, it's always nice to do ones that aren't actually getting played by the original artist anymore. I just love the song; I love that band, and it's nice to be able to play it.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.