Band Quotes
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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 love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.
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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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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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Our first two records are a lot quieter and more studio-based. We kind of had this feeling like we wanted to make a more quote-unquote 'rock' record. Then Patrick joined and really brought a new Herculean power to the band.
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I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.
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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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People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.
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If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.
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A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up.
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'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.
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Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
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There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
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If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
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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.
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
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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 wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.
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If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.
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I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.
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I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.
