Band Quotes
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There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.
Steve Porcaro -
It could've been made thirty years ago or forty-five years ago actually, or it could've been made last week. And, I think the level of our craft was such that we're appreciated, at leased by fans if not critics. Critics have never appreciated our band.
Doug Fieger The Knack
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I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.
Rod Stewart -
Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
Scott Westerfeld -
The problem in America is, the 'alternative' scene isn't alternative anymore. It's just all these metal bands who cut off their fucking hair. I mean, Live is a really stodgy old rock group. We don't feel comfortable being lumped in with a scene like that.
Nigel Pulsford Bush
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Still searching for those golden moments. They’re out there and I will find them. Plus, I have a great band and we all get along very well. It makes it fun to be on stage. Besides, I don’t know how to do anything else.
Southside Johnny -
A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.
Nina Gordon -
The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene -
Any band will say that they'd be nothing without the fans.
Su-chin Pak -
I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we'd ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.
Ernest Thayer
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So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.
Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots -
For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
It is not a band. It is an idea.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
I think that, you know, the odds are good, because they are good songwriters, they're a good band, they're a great band, and they can play
David Fricke -
Sometimes you might be a fan of bands but you don't know where they're from.
Jade Puget Blaqk Audio -
I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span of five albums... in a way, the band that you started in your bedroom, or your basement or your garage, kind of becomes not your band anymore. It becomes something bigger than you could have known. No one really prepares you.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I left the band because of a big misconception. I thought I could just take a “back seat” carrying on writing songs without performing!
Jim McCarty Box of Frogs -
Part of being in a band is getting better.
Michael Bacon -
It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music