Band Quotes
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Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
Arthur Godfrey
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
Alex Kapranos
Franz Ferdinand
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Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.
James Hetfield
Metallica
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We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.
Pete Wentz
Fall Out Boy
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It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.
James Murphy
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I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.
Joe Perry
Aerosmith
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.
Charlie Clouser
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I always wanted to be a band singer, and of course it was the total end of the big band, but I got the last job. It was a very lucky break.
Eydie Gorme
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No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.
Ann Wilson
Heart
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I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...
Mac DeMarco
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When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
Mary J. Blige
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He came from a rock band and even though he was not a lead singer, I knew he was musical just from that. I also knew that he was intelligent enough from talking to him, that he would not play this part unless he could handle it vocally. I knew he was not about to get up there and have to have his voice dubbed or come off croaking. So Johnny Depp casted Johnny Depp. I trusted him entirely. I knew that he was no fool and he would only do it if he felt he could handle it. I told him to listen to the score carefully and if you can handle it, fine by me, and I was right.
Stephen Sondheim
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When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
Butch Trucks
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We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.
Matthew Ramsey
Old Dominion
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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.
Geezer Butler
Black Sabbath
