Les Claypool Quotes

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

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• I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Make A Difference

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

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Change
  • Best

• 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 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.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
  • Loved

• 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

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Band
  • Face
  • Lion

• The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Band
  • Always
  • Never

• I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Team

• 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

• I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Day
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Band
  • Like
  • Task

• 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 never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I joined my family's band, Clannad , as a teenager in 1980 to sing harmonies and play keyboards, but it wasn't musically challenging for me; I felt like an outsider. ... My split from Clannad two years later caused a conflict of loyalty for a time, because I went off with their manager Nicky Ryan, who had asked me to join Clannad in the first place.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Time
  • Family
  • Band

• After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Space
  • Safety

• For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Career

• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Husband
  • Magic

• Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

  

  Vandana Shiva

• Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Band