Band Quotes
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When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
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Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
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We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.
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Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.
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These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.
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There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.
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We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.
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We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
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It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
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As a new band it’s a huge blessing to have fans already but at the same time I feel like some people have preconceived notions about our music based on our time spent with Panic at the Disco.
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Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.
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When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.
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It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.
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It’s so awesome to think that people all over the world are listening to your music. People are just getting into Wildstreet, and they find that we’ve been a band for 13 years. It’s just really cool.
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When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.
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I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.
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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
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I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.
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I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.
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When I was maybe three years old, I was obsessed with this song 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelberg. My mom took me to the mall and bought me a 45 of it. We would listen to that song all the time.
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This is sad. I just think it’s a little ridiculous we are still only looking at the surface of one another. Red hair? Blue hair? Pink? Blonde? Short? Long? Whatever. We might as well shave our heads. Hair has nothing to do with the reason we playing music. It’s a style. Something that will never last as long as the songs we play and the words we sing. Listen up ladies in bands, I’m so proud to be one of you and I don’t care if we all look exactly alike or if we are all carbon copies of each other. We have things to say and it’s up to us to get people to not just look but to LISTEN!
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I'm sure it appeared on the surface that I jumped from band to band for the sake of my career, but that's never been my intent. My whole desire in my career was to be in one band.
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.
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I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.