Band Quotes

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.

The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.

I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.