Band Quotes
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I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.
Syd
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The problem in America is, the 'alternative' scene isn't alternative anymore. It's just all these metal bands who cut off their fucking hair. I mean, Live is a really stodgy old rock group. We don't feel comfortable being lumped in with a scene like that.
Nigel Pulsford Bush
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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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I know I'm a really good drummer, but there are tons of great musicians out here and I was just really worried about what the fuck I was gonna do. It was an era in my life when I was dating again and you know, being in a band is like being involved with a girlfriend because there's a lot of time, a lot of commitment.
Paddy Boom Scissor Sisters
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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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Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.
Scott Ian Anthrax
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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 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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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 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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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 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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If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
Ezra Koenig
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I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
Rick Moranis
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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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We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
Amy Lee Evanescence
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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.
Eldar Djangirov
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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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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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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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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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I'm probably the most sensible in the band.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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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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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