Ewan McGregor Quotes

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

Ewan McGregor

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• Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Living
  • Brand

• I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Bands
  • Split Up

• I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Part

• Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

  

  Rick Astley
  • School
  • Days
  • Bands

• If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Stupid

• I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

  

  April Winchell
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Bands

• What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • Night
  • Scotland

• My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

  

  Dudley Nichols
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Worship

• I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Opportunities
  • Life is
  • Bands

• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Bands

• I don't really collect guitars.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Guitars

• We[ Papa Roach ]'re always trying to get bigger and bigger. It's weird because I wasn't around when they sold millions of records. Now it's just always about "OK what new people can we get to." We're trying to package up with younger bands like Bring Me the Horizon or Of Mice and Men. Those bands always get talked about, because their demographic is so young. But, actually we are seeing a lot of younger people at shows which is awesome.

  

  Tony Palermo Papa Roach
  • People
  • Records
  • Bands

• Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Music
  • Imagine
  • Bands

• Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • My Life
  • Obsession
  • Guitars

• I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. Thats just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Business
  • Trust
  • London

• I grew up loving a lot of English bands, ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • English
  • Bands
  • Grew Up

• People who were in their 20s back in the '80s have told us that we remind them of their favorite bands from when they were younger, ... I understand them. When I was a kid I loved those bands, too. We have that in common with the people who come out and see us.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Bands
  • Remind

• I have some great digital pictures I could sell on the Internet [of Lucy] doing splits and handstands and running around and stuff. My parents came to the set, I brought them over from Scotland, and they loved her. They said, 'This girl has so much energy, where the hell does that come from?' It just comes from her. She's incredibly infectious.

  

  Paul McGuigan Oasis
  • Internet
  • Stuff
  • Pictures

• There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Around
  • Demon

• I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Song
  • Eye

• God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Voice
  • Silent
  • Guiding

• For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

  

  Bono U2
  • Lost
  • Moment
  • Accurate

• I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Bands
  • Scotland
  • Guitars