Im With The Band Quotes

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

I don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.

I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

Have to stay together, can't switch band, but you can have a boyfriend, have to get a boyfriend..!!!

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.

I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.