Band Quotes

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • Together
  • Band

• In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Band
  • Role
  • Well

• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Time
  • Air
  • Finish

• When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Band
  • Pink
  • Rainbow

• It's great fun to play with a really good band.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fun

• We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band
  • Dance

• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kids

• If I see a chick playing guitar, I’m drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it’s completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you’re male. I can’t help it. It’s part of my nature.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Attention

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.

  

  Diplo
  • Done
  • Cool
  • Snow

• We used to really feel like the band was our family.

  

  Chris Frantz Talking Heads
  • Family
  • Band

• There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Great
  • Band

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Player

• In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Friend
  • Play

• For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Crazy
  • Three
  • Train

• You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.

  

  Jade Thirlwall Little Mix
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rock

• Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. I don't think you can come from that area and not be influenced by that stuff a little bit, no matter what generation you grew up in.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Capricorn

• When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It's not really that entertaining. I've seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Live
  • Real
  • Amazing

• I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Guy

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