Band Quotes

• We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Music
  • Band

• 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

• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Great
  • Song
  • Rock

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on it. For us, that means we don't do social media stuff - we have an Avenged Sevenfold social media, but none of the band members have Facebooks or any sort of Twitter.

  

  M. Shadows
  • People
  • Band

• If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • World
  • May
  • Biggest

• I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Band

• When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Up
  • Band

• If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Rock
  • End

• I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• 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

• I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Brand
  • Framed
  • Outsiders

• At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Age
  • Father

• Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Girl
  • Road
  • Adventure

• If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Reality

• Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Good
  • Balance
  • Collaboration

• For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Life
  • Band

• Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Good
  • Dance
  • Musicians

• I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Band
  • Ungrateful

• Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Band
  • Sabbath

• The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Baby
  • Politics

• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Rock

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