Band Quotes:

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

topic: Important, Band, Who You Are

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

topic: Hymns, Band, Way

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

topic: Writing, Labels, Band

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

topic: Rap, Rocks, Band

- Adrian Belew

topic: Play, Might, Band, Instructors

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

- Adrian Belew

topic: School, Age, Band, Marching Band, School Band

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

- Adrian Belew

topic: Lonely, Luxury, Band

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.

topic: Band, Records, Singers

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." â€” Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

- Aimee Bender

topic: Rope, Band, Stories, Rubber Bands

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Musical, Albums, Band

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

- Alan Dean Foster

topic: Art, Philosophy, Band, Fervor

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Average, Musician, Band

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

- Alan K. Simpson

topic: Moving On, Resilience, Band, Rubber Bands

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

- Alan Vega

topic: Long, Promise, Band, Modern Music, Halfway There

Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.

- Alessandro Nivola

topic: Growing Up, Play, Band

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

topic: Thinking, Band

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

topic: Band, Produce

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Band, Want

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Band, Beans, Toasts

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ambition, Band, Good Things

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things

topic: Band, Enthusiasm, Pubs, Venues

- Alex Turner

source: "Progress Report: Arctic Monkeys". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.stereogum.com. May 31, 2011.

topic: Years, Perception, Band, Right Way

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

- Alexei Sayle

topic: Brother, Stupid, Band

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Rocks, Albums, Band

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

- Alison Krauss

topic: School, Band, Incredibles, Chorus

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.

- Allan Houston

source: "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

topic: Talking, Band, Want, Keep Talking, Band Aid

At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Castles, Band, Care

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

- Amanda Marshall

topic: Careers, Band, Management

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

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Ideas, Dawn, Band, Crowdfunding

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

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

topic: Spiritual, Band, Way, Spiritual Beliefs

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.

topic: Religious, Media, Band

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

topic: Band, Want, Evanescence

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

topic: School, Band, Death Metal, Metal Band

- Amy Ray

topic: Reality, Band, Folks

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

- Amy Ray

topic: Girl, Different, Band, Hanging Around, Indigo

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

- Analeigh Tipton

topic: Talking, Band, My Favorite, Favorite Bands, Talking Heads

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

- Andrea Corr

topic: Thinking, Together, Band

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

- Andrew Bird

topic: Rocks, Nails, Band, Elusiveness, Indie Rock

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

- Andrew Eldritch

topic: Hard Times, People, Band

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

- Andrew Taylor

topic: People, Mind Blowing, Band, Blowing It, Small Places

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

- Andy Summers

topic: Today, Band, World

It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.

- Andy Summers

topic: Years, Play, Band, New Situations

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

- Angus Young

topic: Sound, Different, Band

The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

- Angus Young

source: Blender magazine, 2003.

topic: Girl, America, Band

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

- Angus Young

topic: Past, Band, Pimples

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

topic: Rocks, Band, Fleetwood Mac, Rock Bands

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

topic: Ideas, Band, Get Involved

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

topic: Heart, Rocks, Band, Rock Bands, Hard Rock

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

topic: Sex, Love Relationship, Band, Sex Relationships

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

topic: Band, Zeppelins, Pay, Homage

- Anna Sui

topic: Band, Invasion, Punk, British Invasion

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

- Anne-Marie Duff

topic: Thinking, Catharsis, Band

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

- April Winchell

topic: Dark, Band, Made, Glow In The Dark

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

- Ariel Rechtshaid

topic: Space, Band, Records

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

- Art Alexakis

topic: Rocks, Stories, Band, Rock Bands, Hard Rock

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

- Artie Shaw

topic: Swings, Band, Firsts

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

- Artie Shaw

topic: Thinking, Band, Jazz

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

- Arto Lindsay

topic: House, Different, Band

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

- Audrina Patridge

source: "Teen Talks To: Audrina Patridge". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. May 8, 2008.

topic: Guy, Band

I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Rocks, Band, Green, Female Singers

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

- Aziz Ansari

topic: Cutting, Gentleman, Band

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

- Babyface

topic: Style, Band, Materials

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

- Beck

topic: Band, Gigs, Flyers, Demos

My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it's recorded.

- Ben Harper

topic: Song, Band, Records

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

- Ben Moody

topic: Depression, Leader, Band

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

- Benjamin Tucker

topic: People, Principles, Band

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

- Benmont Tench

topic: Trying, Band, Records

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.

- Benny Goodman

topic: People, Band, Thrill

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

- Benny Goodman

topic: Band, Remember, Difficult

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

- Bert McCracken

source: "McCracken Had No Rock Doubts" by Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, September 1, 2005.

topic: Rocks, Singing, Band, Rock Bands

When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

- Bert McCracken

source: "Meet Kelly Osbourne's Ex-Drug Addict Boyfriend". www.smh.com.au. February 19, 2003.

topic: Thinking, Drug, Band

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Gossip, Musician, Band

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Rainbow, Flags, Band

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

- Bill Haley

topic: Rock And Roll, Band, Clock

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Children, Tails, Band, Procession, Big Shots

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

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: Pride, Trying, Band

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: Play, Band, Clue

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

- Billy Bragg

topic: Political, Band, Records

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

- Billy Eckstine

topic: Birthday, Playing Music, Band

The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

- Billy Gibbons

topic: Band, Quitting, Enough

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

- Billy Gibbons

topic: Band, Elements, Good Things

Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!

- Billy Joe Shaver

topic: Fans, Band, Woody, Biggest Fan

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

- Billy Sherwood

topic: Dad, Guy, Band

Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

- Billy Sherwood

source: Interview with Aymeric Leroy, www.bondegezou.co.uk.

topic: Band, Singers, Causes

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

- Billy Sherwood

topic: Morning, Band, Goes On

I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

- Bix Beiderbecke

topic: Band, Hell, Good Bands

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

- Bix Beiderbecke

topic: Song, Band, Jazz, Jazz Band, Handy

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

topic: Moving, America, Band

Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in 'Sugar Money,' no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.

- Bo Bice

source: "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2005.

topic: Guy, Band, Care

Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.

- Bob Corritore

topic: Band, Glue, Cracks

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

- Bob Geldof

topic: Children, Kids, Band

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.

- Bobby Keys

topic: School, People, Band, Baritones, School Band

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.

- Bon Scott

topic: Valentine, Band, Lasts

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

- Bon Scott

topic: Beer, Band, Hey

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

- Bonnie Raitt

topic: Band, Profit, Members, Non Profit

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

- Bootsy Collins

topic: People, Band, Used

I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

- Bootsy Collins

topic: Stars, Band, Stuff

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

- Brad Delson

source: Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

topic: Band, Inspired, Mates, Sheer

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

- Brad Paisley

topic: Rocks, Band

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

- Brad Paisley

topic: Years, Band

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

- Brad Paisley

topic: Guy, Band, World, Really Positive

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

- Brandon Boyd

topic: Play, Effort, Band, Democratic Process, Collaborative Effort

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

- Bret Michaels

topic: Band, Destruction, Chasing

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

- Brian Eno

topic: Play, Band, Reason

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

- Brian Eno

topic: Albums, Velvet, Band, Velvet Underground

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

- Brian Eno

topic: Culture, Gone, Band

Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

- Brian Johnson

topic: Band, Hungry, Blackberries

The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.

- Brian Miller

topic: Eagles, Band, Harmony

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

- Brian Setzer

topic: Crazy, Writing, Band

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

- Bridget Hall

topic: Rocks, Band, Shirts, Tees, Advertising Agencies

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

- Brody Jenner

topic: College, Band

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

- Brooke Burke

topic: Keys, Rocks, Band, Low Key

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

- Bruce Dickinson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Band, World, Heavy Metal, Metal Band

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

- Bruce Dickinson

topic: Blow, Labels, Band

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

- Bruce Dickinson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Looks, Band, Internet, Five Minutes

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

- Bruce McCulloch

topic: People, Band, Records

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Rocks, Band, Rock N Roll

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Airplane, Band, Records

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Ideas, People, Band

I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

topic: Thinking, Band, World

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

topic: Rocks, Wish, Band

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

topic: Band, Hawaii, Bob, Marley, Radio Stations

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

topic: Band, Littles, Next

- Bryan Adams

topic: Player, Names, Band, Bass Players

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

- Bryan Ferry

topic: Band, Wrecks, Rooms

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

- Bryan Procter

source: Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.218

topic: Grief, Band, Speak

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

- Buddy Rich

topic: Average, Sound, Band

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

- Buddy Rich

topic: Swings, Band, Drummer

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

- Burt Bacharach

topic: School, Piano, Band, American Music, Playing Piano

Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Band, Bullets, Thanks, Band Aid

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

- Carla Bley

topic: Art, Band, Music Is

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

- Carla Bley

topic: Writing, Band, Talent

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

- Carla Bley

topic: Stars, Keys, Band, Banner

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

source: "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.

topic: Band, Particular

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Piano, Band

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

source: "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com.

topic: Player, Piano, Band

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Band

- Carrie Brownstein

topic: House, Band

These new bands sound like Gang of Four â€” if Gang of Four sucked.

- Carrie Brownstein

topic: Sound, Band, Four

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

- Carrie Brownstein

topic: Rocks, Games, Band

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

- Carrie P. Meek

topic: Years, Dollars, Band, Band Aid

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

- Cee Lo Green

source: "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

topic: Growing Up, Band, World

Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.

- Chad Kroeger

topic: Song, Fire, Band

People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

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.

topic: People, Fans, Band

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

topic: Thinking, Trying, Band

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

topic: Work Out, Black, Band, Favorite Bands, Black Sabbath

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

topic: School, Class, Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band

When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!

topic: Band, Throwback

- Charice Pempengco

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Band, Records, Imitation, Miley

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

- Charles Garfield

topic: Men, Band, Genius

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

- Charles Inglis

topic: Blessing, Rights, 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.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

topic: Steel, Band, Sin

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

- Charlie Haden

topic: Art, People, Band

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

- Charlie Hunter

topic: Would Be, Jam, Band

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

- Charlie Simpson

source: "Busted bust up". Kerrang! Magazine, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

topic: Jobs, Fun, Band, Busted, Pop Bands

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

- Charlie Simpson

source: "Busted bust up". www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

topic: Imagination, Band, Busted

I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Golf, Band, Dance Floor

You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

- Chick Webb

topic: Men, White, Band, Best Is Yet To Come

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

- Chico Hamilton

topic: Music, Band, Jazz

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Country, Band, Lawyer

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'.

- Chris Cheney

topic: Fun, Dressing Up, Band

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

- Chris Daughtry

topic: Fans, Band, May

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

- Chris Hardwick

topic: Real, People, Band, Reddit, Old Jokes

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

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.

topic: Unique, Player, Band, Unique Things

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Band

It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.

topic: Band, Problem, Bigs