Band Quotes
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I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.
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What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!
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They The Beatles were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.
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I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.
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I was in the band for the first six albums.
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The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.
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I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.
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I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff that was punk rock, ska, but then we had a lot of funk in there.
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I don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time.
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Sometimes you might be a fan of bands but you don't know where they're from.
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Playing in a band, selling records through mail order, and selling clothes - these are all things I love doing. If that can please others, then I couldn't be happier.
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Naturally we always want to get ourselves forward as musicians and also as a band and of course we want to sell more all the time. We won’t deny it, of course we do.
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The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious
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Daniel's pretty private, but being his friend I'd ask him "are you OK?' I'm just glad things are OK again and we're going on tour. I think finally we may be past that "teen band' crap and are now just "the Australian trio!
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I left the band because of a big misconception. I thought I could just take a “back seat” carrying on writing songs without performing!
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The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.
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For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.
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I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
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Everything was happening in the 70s. We were coming out of a period of austerity and things were pretty dark and then punk came along. It taught us that you didn’t need to be a musical virtuoso to start a band – and we certainly were not.
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The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
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Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
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It is not a band. It is an idea.
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When you break up, it's like you're free, and when you break up with a band, it's like you're free, and I was very free.
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Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
