David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

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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.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Music
  • May
  • Kids

• I loved being in a band.

  

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

• My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Home
  • Man

• 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

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Play
  • Band
  • Rock

• I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Night
  • Band
  • Listening

• If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Band

• I remember certain lines and whose they are.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Remember
  • Lines
  • I Remember

• I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Band

• I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Life
  • Why
  • Band

• I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Music
  • Different
  • Age

• It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

  

  Luke Treadaway
  • Live
  • Band
  • Fake

• As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Career
  • Band
  • Beginning

• A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Together
  • Band

• Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Band

• I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Writing
  • Band

• What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.

  

  James Murphy
  • Different
  • Live
  • Band

• There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Expected
  • Amount
  • Frustrated

• My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Great
  • Job
  • Friend

• I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Country
  • Figures
  • Historical

• And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

  

  David Bowie
  • Band
  • Lines
  • Grows