Band famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
-- Abigail Washburn -
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
-- Ace Frehley -
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
-- Adam Jones -
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
-- Adam Jones -
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
-- Adam Jones -
You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?
-- Adam Levine -
Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.
-- Adam Rich -
Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.
-- Adam Rich -
A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.
-- Adam Rich -
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.
-- Adam Rich -
I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
-- Adrian Belew -
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.
-- Adrian Belew -
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
-- Adrian Belew -
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
-- Aimee Bender -
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
-- Al Yankovic -
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 -
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 -
He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
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 -
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 -
Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
-- Alex Kapranos -
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
-- Alex Kapranos -
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
-- Alex Kapranos -
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
-- Alex Kapranos -
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
-- Alex Turner -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
-- Amanda Marshall -
Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
-- Amy Lee -
We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
-- Amy Lee -
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.
-- Amy Lee -
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
-- Amy Lee -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.
-- Andy Gilbert -
It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
-- Andy Summers -
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 -
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 -
The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.
-- Angus Young -
I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
-- Angus Young -
It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
-- Ann Wilson -
Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.
-- Ann Wilson -
No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.
-- Ann Wilson -
Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.
-- Ann Wilson -
I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
-- Anna Sui -
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 -
I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.
-- April Winchell -
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 -
I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
-- Art Alexakis -
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 -
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 -
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 -
A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.
-- Audrina Patridge -
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 -
I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.
-- Aziz Ansari -
When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.
-- Babyface -
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
-- Beck -
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 -
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.
-- Ben Moody -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.
-- Bill Haley -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
-- Billy Bragg -
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 -
Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
-- Billy Gibbons -
Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!
-- Billy Joe Shaver -
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
-- Billy Sherwood -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.
-- Bob Corritore -
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 -
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
