Band Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Crazy
  • Three
  • Train

• Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• 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

• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
  • Loved

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

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

  

  Jade Thirlwall Little Mix
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rock

• Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Pretty
  • Band

• Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

  

  Adam Rich
  • Music
  • Important
  • Friends

• To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Career

• 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
  • Time
  • Country
  • School

• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Up
  • Music
  • Today

• 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

• People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Band
  • Realize

• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Rock

• I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Know
  • Dad

• Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Band
  • Jazz
  • Sophisticated

• I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• 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

• We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Political
  • Band

• When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Moment
  • Everyone
  • Destroy

• 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 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

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Rock

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