Band Quotes
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
Quincy Jones
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I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far.
Fred Armisen
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Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.
Dave Lombardo Slayer
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We used to really feel like the band was our family.
Chris Frantz Talking Heads
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Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
Walker Stapleton
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We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
Eddie Floyd
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
Hanna Rosin
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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
Chick Corea
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Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
Zayn Malik One Direction
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I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
Levon Helm
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There's trials and tribulations in a band.
David Bryan Bon Jovi
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
Malcolm Wilson
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We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.
Jesse L. Martin
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You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.
Jade Thirlwall Little Mix
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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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I loved being in a band.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
Bobby McFerrin
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
Sam Trammell
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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
Bonnie Raitt
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
Daisy Berkowitz