Band Quotes

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

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick

Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

The girls look like they are a band already - the boys don't

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

We never nicked stuff from other bands because that was a no-no because we were all in the same boat. You don't steal from the poor because, let's face it, they're poor. There's no sense in that.

Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.