Band Quotes
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After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
Tina Turner -
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.
Steve Martin
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I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
Rod Stewart -
It's really hard to name a band.
Riki Lindhome -
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 -
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
David Bowie -
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 -
Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.
Rod Stewart
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We started our band in a garage when we were 15.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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 -
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 -
When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
Steve Martin -
I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
Tony Blair
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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 -
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
Evan Dando -
I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.
Sunny Mabrey -
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
Ezra Koenig -
Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.
Ryan Adams -
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
Elvis Costello
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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 -
The band is our whole lives and we are completely dedicated, but if you get too serious you'll have a lot of problems and if you don't enjoy what you are doing you shouldn't be doing it.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David Bowie -
The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.
Eric Garcetti