Lee Ranaldo Quotes

Signing to a major, there weren't many bands from our sphere that were doing it. I mean, obviously R.E.M. had done it, and Husker Du and the Replacements had done it, and maybe Soul Asylum, but that was probably about it. Those four bands were pretty much the only ones from that milieu that had signed to a major.

Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth

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• I just love playing in major championships.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Playing
  • Major
  • Championships

• I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Like
  • Pay
  • View

• 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

• 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

• In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Discipline

• The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Mother
  • Gods
  • Major

• This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Bands
  • Freed
  • Servile

• 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

• We traveled with a lot of these bands and got to know them personally. It's a real good comradery between musicians…traveling together, you can relate to each other.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Musicians
  • Bands
  • Traveled

• 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

• You want a showman, go see rock n roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll
  • Showman

• 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

• 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

• It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • American
  • Failure
  • Bands

• I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
  • Believe
  • Child

• The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • Important
  • Truth

• One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Band
  • Changes

• I know how good I can be. I'm not being big-headed. I think all players have to have that confidence and self-belief.

  

  Jack Grealish
  • Confidence
  • Players
  • Self-belief

• Signing to a major, there weren't many bands from our sphere that were doing it. I mean, obviously R.E.M. had done it, and Husker Du and the Replacements had done it, and maybe Soul Asylum, but that was probably about it. Those four bands were pretty much the only ones from that milieu that had signed to a major.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Bands
  • Major
  • Signing