Im With The Band Quotes

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.

Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!

We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.

I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change.

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond... with my body.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

I'm a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it's easier.

And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

I'm glad I was never in a band.

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

I've always gravitated naturally towards a little bit of a heavier thing, having been in punk bands and metal bands before I ever got into pop.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

I mean it was weird. But Phoenix watched us every night. But it's like they're not even a band, they're like a corporation. They bring a staff of like 40 people.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20′s and 30′s... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.