Band Quotes

• It’s really interesting, I tailor the set to the place we’re playing and to the audience we’re playing to. There’s a certain formula of songs that have to be included that are expected, but I don’t go changing it up, I think if you give the audience the songs that they want and then give them something unexpected, it’s a great situation for the audience, but also a great situation for the band.

  

  Frankie Banali
  • Audience
  • Songs
  • Playing

• 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
  • Energy
  • First
  • Concert

• 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
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Record

• I think that, you know, the odds are good, because they are good songwriters, they're a good band, they're a great band, and they can play

  

  David Fricke
  • Band
  • Odds
  • Songwriters

• It is not a band. It is an idea.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Band
  • Idea

• Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Friends
  • Band
  • Corner

• 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
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Band

• 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
  • Girl
  • Feminist
  • Calling

• 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.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Enough
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• I totally have this thing for Harry Styles from One Direction. But like I could totally date the rest of the band as one. I mean, if I could date all of them at one time that'd be like ideal. They seem pretty close, but who knows? Maybe not that close.

  

  Cassie Steele
  • Mean
  • Style
  • Ideals

• Any band will say that they'd be nothing without the fans.

  

  Su-chin Pak
  • Band
  • Fans
  • Nothing

• My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Band
  • Enough
  • Copies

• 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.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Important
  • Contribution
  • Organs

• I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Band

• 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
  • Player
  • Inspired
  • Virtue

• I would have been happy being in a wedding band.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Happy
  • Band

• 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
  • Mission
  • Rock N Roll
  • Achieved

• 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
  • May
  • Play
  • Able

• The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Band
  • Distance
  • Seeds

• 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
  • Women
  • Band
  • Confections

• We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Band
  • Religious
  • Media

• That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • Kids
  • Dark
  • Guitar

• We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Fun
  • Career
  • Band

• When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

  

  David Bowie
  • Player
  • Littles
  • Baritones

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