Ian Astbury Quotes
I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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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.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.
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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.
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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.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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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.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
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You know, I am still doing solo stuff and will continue always as well as other people in the band. We know that everybody has their own thing so we like to leave that door for everyone.
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We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.
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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
Mark Spitz -
Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
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I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.
