Band Quotes
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If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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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.
Paul Thomson Franz Ferdinand
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
John Lennon The Beatles
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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.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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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
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Nuno Bettencourt
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When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.
Eric San
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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.
Brandon Boyd Incubus
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I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
Jake Epstein
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I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I'd been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we'd ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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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.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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As a new band it’s a huge blessing to have fans already but at the same time I feel like some people have preconceived notions about our music based on our time spent with Panic at the Disco.
Jon Walker Panic! at the Disco
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Some of us band members have September birthdays, and we wanted to have a party.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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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!
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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Being in a boy band, everyone has an opinion of all of us and what we do. There was a time I fought with that.
Ronan Keating Boyzone
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You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
Cliff Martinez
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You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
Andrew Mayer Cohen
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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.
George Michael
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Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.
Nick Hodgson