Band Quotes
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I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.
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When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.
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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.
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With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
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Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.
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If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
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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.
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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.
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I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.
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I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
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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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If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.
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We wanted to do something better. We didn't want to do the same record twice. With the second one, we were more attuned to each other as a band.
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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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This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.
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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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We were definitely a live band. There were a lot of gigs in those days. The London area where we came from there was probably three times as many venues as there are now.
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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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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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Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.
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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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We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
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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.
