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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• I don't feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It's not really that entertaining. I've seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Live
  • Real
  • Amazing

• The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • People
  • Career
  • Band

• There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Band

• I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Band

• I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Work
  • Done
  • Band

• Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

  

  William Osler
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • Hours

• In those days, I didn't know how guys like Clapton and Beck were getting that searing blues lead sound, so I developed my style to be rhythmic and chord-based, with simple lead lines that you could almost hum.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Guy
  • Simple
  • Style

• There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.

  

  Charlotte Bingham
  • Healthy
  • Front
  • Types

• 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
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