Band Quotes
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We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.
Steve Lukather Toto
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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.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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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.
Brendan Bayliss
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They're like the mirror of myself - I've got both male and female counterparts. I'm really happy to be playing in a band that appeals to people who I feel I could honestly be friends with. It's a luxury, I believe, not many bands enjoy. It certainly spurs me on.
Colin Meloy
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I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'm probably the most sensible in the band.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.
Carrie Brownstein
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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
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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
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We're not a studio band, so this isn't our best. We still have more to say.
Brendan Bayliss
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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
Ezra Furman
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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
Cass McCombs
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
Steve Earle
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I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.
Sunny Mabrey
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We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
Amy Lee Evanescence
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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.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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
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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.
Ed Robertson
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Naturally we always want to get ourselves forward as musicians and also as a band and of course we want to sell more all the time. We won’t deny it, of course we do.
Jukka Nevalainen Nightwish
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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.
Ed Robertson
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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
Ethan Hawke
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I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.
Miranda Cosgrove