Band Quotes
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In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.
Nancy Wilson Heart -
We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
Steve Porcaro
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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.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.
Cassie Steele -
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.
Suggs -
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.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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 -
As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.
Eldar Djangirov -
Y’know we all have stuff that we do apart from a-ha – I have another band – and that kinda stuff sorta works for us.
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy -
I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.
Andy Gill -
You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.
Eric Jerome Dickey -
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
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I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
Art Pepper -
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
Michael Connelly -
There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.
Steve Porcaro -
It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
Steve Jones -
I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.
Nina Gordon
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The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
I have decided not to push my luck by returning to the band. My dear pal Kai Hahto will take my place as a full-time member of the band. I will continue to take care of the band’s businesses in the background, and I’m very much looking forward to what other adventures life has to offer!
Jukka Nevalainen Nightwish -
We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span of five albums... in a way, the band that you started in your bedroom, or your basement or your garage, kind of becomes not your band anymore. It becomes something bigger than you could have known. No one really prepares you.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte