Steve Jones (Stephen Philip Jone) Quotes

My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

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• 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

• 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Me
  • Band

• 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

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Band

• Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Today
  • Band

• 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

• 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
  • Style

• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Time
  • Band
  • Air

• I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.

  

  Washed Out
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Doubt

• The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • May
  • Truth
  • Society

• But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Band

• I've written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band's concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It's pretty unpredictable. I think it's always flowing, and sometimes I'm not listening. There's no formula for when I'm going to be able to be a good listener to myself.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Moments

• I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Good
  • Band

• There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Band

• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Care

• Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key

• I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Person

• Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

  

  Van Jones
  • Earth
  • Fire
  • Sun

• My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

  

  Steve Jones
  • Band
  • Gig
  • Opening Up