Band Quotes
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I don't like English bands. They're too structured.
Tommy Bolin -
I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.
George Michael
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I would have been happy being in a wedding band.
Lewis Capaldi -
It’s really interesting, I tailor the set to the place we’re playing and to the audience we’re playing to. There’s a certain formula of songs that have to be included that are expected, but I don’t go changing it up, I think if you give the audience the songs that they want and then give them something unexpected, it’s a great situation for the audience, but also a great situation for the band.
Frankie Banali -
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
Evan Dando -
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
Ezra Koenig -
I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
Tony Blair -
It's really hard to name a band.
Riki Lindhome
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I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.
Syd -
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.
Dolly Parton -
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
Steve Martin -
I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.
Sunny Mabrey -
Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.
Rod Stewart -
I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
Rod Stewart
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Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.
Ryan Adams -
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
Elvis Costello -
I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
Rick Moranis -
When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
Steve Martin -
I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.
Kevin Costner
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The band is our whole lives and we are completely dedicated, but if you get too serious you'll have a lot of problems and if you don't enjoy what you are doing you shouldn't be doing it.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.
Floor Jansen Nightwish -
When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.
Carrie Brownstein