Band Quotes

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.

When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.

When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.

I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well.

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London.

It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

I really like The Vamps. Im friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so thats fun.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.

When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.

I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is definitely an interest.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].

People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals!

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!