Band Quotes
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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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Touring, it's really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that's why there's so few bands that do work, actually, 'cause there's so much that goes into it.
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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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We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.
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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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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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It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'
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I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.
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If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.
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As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.
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Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form.
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I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.
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I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.
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LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.
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In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
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The chemistry you get from playing live with a band is unique.
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It could've been made thirty years ago or forty-five years ago actually, or it could've been made last week. And, I think the level of our craft was such that we're appreciated, at leased by fans if not critics. Critics have never appreciated our band.
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Every band is different just because of the different combinations of people really are super unique to every band. The way you work together and the personalities that are being brought to the table. Our band is definitely the best combination of personalities I've worked with so far.
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We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
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I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.
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I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
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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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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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There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.
