Band Quotes

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

I like bands for a long time, even when they're not trendy anymore. I still like Arcade Fire. I've always liked Stevie Wonder.

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one at radio wants to play a band that's on a television show.

It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?"

We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

45 years is a long time to do anything, let alone for a rock band to play together. I'm proud of what we've accomplished and proud that we've kept the high standards.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.