Lee Ranaldo Quotes

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth

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• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Change
  • Band

• Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Band
  • Timeless

• I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Think
  • Effect
  • Matrix

• 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

• I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Work
  • Model
  • Anymore

• 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

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• 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
  • Politics

• The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Different
  • Small
  • Band

• I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Night
  • Band

• The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Society
  • Small
  • Band

• The idea of a band nowadays is 5 pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on. What the fuck is that? I mean, I like Britney Spears, I think she's pretty, but I'm not from the Mickey Mouse Club-I'm from the Godzilla Club!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Band

• Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Time
  • Success
  • Band

• If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Reality

• My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Experience
  • Band
  • Rock

• As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Good
  • Band
  • Rock

• My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

  

  Louis Prima
  • School
  • Band
  • Brother

• The band that I was I auditioning for, they were just all like, dreads and stuff, so I did look kind of out of place. But I had learned the material and it sounded cool as f**k when we were rehearsing.

  

  Tony Palermo Papa Roach
  • Band
  • Learned
  • Auditioning

• You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.

  

  Adi Godrej

• The general public has been conditioned to think 'comics = superheroes' for as long as caped crusaders have been around - by critics, mass media, and Marvel and DC themselves, who have what you might call a vested interest.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Long

• I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

  

  Kathy Reichs
  • Police

• We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Mainstream
  • Anymore