Band Quotes
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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.
Tommy Bolin
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Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.
Scott Ian Anthrax -
I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
Stephen Mangan -
I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.
Greg Ginn Black Flag -
Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future for another band next to a band such as Nightwish, and with the ambition to become a mother, I will have to let Revamp go, which is a very sad decision.
Floor Jansen Nightwish -
I totally have this thing for Harry Styles from One Direction. But like I could totally date the rest of the band as one. I mean, if I could date all of them at one time that'd be like ideal. They seem pretty close, but who knows? Maybe not that close.
Cassie Steele -
When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.
Eric San
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I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.
Ed Robertson -
He came from a rock band and even though he was not a lead singer, I knew he was musical just from that. I also knew that he was intelligent enough from talking to him, that he would not play this part unless he could handle it vocally. I knew he was not about to get up there and have to have his voice dubbed or come off croaking. So Johnny Depp casted Johnny Depp. I trusted him entirely. I knew that he was no fool and he would only do it if he felt he could handle it. I told him to listen to the score carefully and if you can handle it, fine by me, and I was right.
Stephen Sondheim -
I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
Nina Hagen -
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
Tommy Bolin -
You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene -
I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.
Syd
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I started a band in 1961 that eventually became Nazareth later on along the way. I have always been in the band and it is a way of life. I have a great and exciting job.
Pete Agnew Nazareth -
I thought as a kid, "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.
Ezra Furman -
Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.
Nick Hodgson -
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
David Bowie -
We started our band in a garage when we were 15.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
Stephen Sondheim
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A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
Nuno Bettencourt -
After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
Tina Turner -
Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
Ezra Furman -
We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.
Keren Woodward Bananarama