Band Quotes
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
Scott Westerfeld -
I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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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 -
I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.
Tommy Bolin -
For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
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.
Tommy Bolin -
Part of being in a band is getting better.
Michael Bacon -
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
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You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene -
A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
Nuno Bettencourt -
I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
Stephen Mangan -
I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.
Syd -
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 -
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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I thought as a kid, "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.
Ezra Furman -
I don't like English bands. They're too structured.
Tommy Bolin -
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 -
I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
Stephen Sondheim -
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 -
I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
Nina Hagen
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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.
Pete Agnew Nazareth -
We started our band in a garage when we were 15.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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 -
I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
Rod Stewart