David Thibodeau Quotes

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

David Thibodeau

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• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Think

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Band
  • Go
  • Debate

• The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Band
  • Guys
  • Instruments

• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
  • Loved

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Band
  • Face
  • Lion

• I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Done
  • Art
  • Me

• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Support
  • Band

• My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Band
  • Popular

• The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Band
  • Baby

• I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Night
  • Band
  • Listening

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Short
  • Eat

• I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Band
  • Gymnastics

• We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.

  

  Aaron Dessner The National
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Big

• I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

  

  John Sulston
  • World

• A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

  

  Alexander Hamilton

• It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

  

  John Howard
  • Discipline

• I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Band