Band Quotes
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I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.
James Hetfield Metallica
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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.
Carl Gardner -
Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
Chris Metzler -
People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.
Ed Robertson -
The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth -
The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
Art Pepper -
These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.
Carrie Brownstein -
In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.
Nancy Wilson Heart -
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
Michael Connelly -
As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.
Eldar Djangirov -
While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.
Nuno Bettencourt
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We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
Steve Porcaro -
We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
Daniel's pretty private, but being his friend I'd ask him "are you OK?' I'm just glad things are OK again and we're going on tour. I think finally we may be past that "teen band' crap and are now just "the Australian trio!
Ben Gillies Silverchair -
I have decided not to push my luck by returning to the band. My dear pal Kai Hahto will take my place as a full-time member of the band. I will continue to take care of the band’s businesses in the background, and I’m very much looking forward to what other adventures life has to offer!
Jukka Nevalainen Nightwish -
I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
Bill Burr -
It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
Steve Jones -
I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.
Andy Gill -
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience