Band Quotes
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
Sam Shepard
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That's when I'm at my rawest. When I'm performing with the band. It's just like the groove is going, whether we're fast or slow, I can just transport myself.
Craig Robinson
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I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.
Kim Thayil
Soundgarden
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright
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Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
Taylor Hanson
Hanson
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
Laura Bell Bundy
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I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
Caroline Corr
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Mel H. Buffalo, an advisor to the Samson Cree band in Hobbema, Alberta, reported that 'every Indian person I've spoken to who attended these schools has a story of mental, physical or sexual abuse to relate.'
Ward Churchill
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Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.
Elizabeth McGovern
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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I thought the best thing to do to bring me back to reality would be to have a child, and by the time I had my first, Taylor, when I was 25, we'd sold 35 million records as a band, and I'd had enough; I knew my sanity was more important than success.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.
Dave Keuning
The Killers
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I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
George Strait
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
J. D. Souther
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I think it's natural for people to see a band and imagine themselves as part of that. That's what I grew up fantasizing about, looking at posters of bands on my wall. There is an allure to a band.
Matthew Ramsey
Old Dominion
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I think that it's our job to sort of band together and say, 'OK, what are the ways the male gaze has seeped into your brain and is affecting the way you treat yourself? Let's work together to eliminate that.'
Betty Gilpin
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
Imelda May
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
Anton Zaslavski
