Band Quotes
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I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.
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Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.
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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.
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I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
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I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.
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The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
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I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
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A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
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I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.
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I started a band in 1961 that eventually became Nazareth later on along the way. I have always been in the band and it is a way of life. I have a great and exciting job.
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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.
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I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
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People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
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A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
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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.
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It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.
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I don't like English bands. They're too structured.
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In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.
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I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."
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If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
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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!
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We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
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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.
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I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.
