Frankie Banali Quotes

It’s really interesting, I tailor the set to the place we’re playing and to the audience we’re playing to. There’s a certain formula of songs that have to be included that are expected, but I don’t go changing it up, I think if you give the audience the songs that they want and then give them something unexpected, it’s a great situation for the audience, but also a great situation for the band.

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World
  • Band
  • Sacrifice

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• I just love playing in major championships.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Playing
  • Major
  • Championships

• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Audience

• 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

• My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Career
  • Games
  • Playing

• Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Audience
  • Questions
  • Members

• I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Band
  • Popular

• I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Nice
  • Band
  • Travel

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Love
  • Audience
  • Privilege

• If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Playing
  • Not Interested

• Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Without

• God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In cares of state and private plights,In rowdy feasts of friendship's band,In passion's sweet and secret rites!God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In daily woes and days of strife,On vacant sa, in distant land,In every black abyss of life!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Life
  • God
  • Friends

• The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.

  

  Blixa Bargeld
  • Energy
  • Audience
  • Source

• [Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Company
  • Records
  • Despite

• You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Team
  • Day

• The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

  

  Konrad Adenauer
  • Art

• Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

  

  Adam Selzer
  • Die
  • Problems
  • Guidance

• It’s really interesting, I tailor the set to the place we’re playing and to the audience we’re playing to. There’s a certain formula of songs that have to be included that are expected, but I don’t go changing it up, I think if you give the audience the songs that they want and then give them something unexpected, it’s a great situation for the audience, but also a great situation for the band.

  

  Frankie Banali
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