Band Quotes

• We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • True
  • Dream
  • Band

• So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Energy
  • Band
  • Songs

• Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Different
  • Real
  • Rhythm

• It’s really great for the whole band to learn how to be at that professional level. Even just things like timing are so crucial – you can’t over-run as the support act.

  

  Aluna Francis
  • Band
  • Learn
  • Level

• With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Music
  • Band

• I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

  

  Tim Gane
  • Band
  • Punk

• I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Great
  • Road
  • Fly

• I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

  

  Bix Beiderbecke
  • Band
  • Hell
  • Hear

• The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Trying
  • Definitions

• When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Attitude
  • Clothes
  • Grunge

• The rest of the band faded down to almost nothing while my dad did his best Bill Evans impression — except hopefully without the untreated hepatitis.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Band
  • Impression
  • Hepatitis

• Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Records
  • Essence
  • Capture

• The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • Time
  • Band
  • Played

• The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Band
  • Big
  • The Beatles

• People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Rose

• You don’t go to a show because you think someone in the band is hot.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Think
  • Band
  • Show

• The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Way
  • Band
  • Three

• I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Stage
  • Dancer
  • Beyonce

• While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.

  

  Nuno Bettencourt
  • Learning
  • Band
  • Works

• 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
  • Enough
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Philosophy
  • Liberal

• 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
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Schools

• It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.

  

  Tessanne Chin
  • Important
  • Song
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

  Ari Up
  • Different
  • Influence
  • Responsible

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