Band Quotes
There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY.
Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.
The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.
It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.
Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry
I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.
I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.
There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.
I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.
The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.
I originally wanted to be a singer, but I was average. I made 18 records, but none were that great. I was in a dance band at Bournemouth Pavilion for three years, and I played guitar too.
I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.
We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.
To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.
There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.
I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.
Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.
My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.
Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.
I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
I've been touring every year since the band broke up. It's my job. It's what I love to do. So I'm all good with it.
I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.
I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.
From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!
The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.
It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.
I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.
Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.
The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."
For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.
I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.
And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world
It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other.
Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room