Band Quotes
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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.
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I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
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It's really hard to name a band.
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After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
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We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.
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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.
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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.
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The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.
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It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.
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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
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Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.
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We're not a studio band, so this isn't our best. We still have more to say.
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It's pretty much a representation of the direction we're going in. This is our first studio experience where we can overdub and correct things. But we're definitely not a studio band.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
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The problem in America is, the 'alternative' scene isn't alternative anymore. It's just all these metal bands who cut off their fucking hair. I mean, Live is a really stodgy old rock group. We don't feel comfortable being lumped in with a scene like that.
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There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
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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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People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.
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Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.
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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.
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.
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I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.
