Band Quotes
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There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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Motley is a great band; they're a legendary band. They're probably going to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at some point.
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Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.
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Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.
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My band did the Teenage Fair battle of the bands - problem was we were 11 years old! They gave us a prize for youngest band ever.
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I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
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A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
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But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
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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 spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.
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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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
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I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'
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Hopefully we can be a band who has a career like U2 or Aerosmith or somebody like that but that's very far and few between. We're happy to be where we are at now, so it's a gift, you gotta just keep pushing forward. For all of us it's very easy to be out here and do what we do, easy in the sense that it's a gift but it can be difficult at times.
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I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.
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How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?
