Band Quotes

• Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Band
  • Same
  • Diversity

• During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Health
  • Band

• It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Problems
  • Anxiety

• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Think

• 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
  • Music
  • Band

• 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
  • Different
  • School
  • Me

• 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

• I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Weird

• I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Life
  • World
  • Band

• 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

• The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Band
  • Rock

• We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Band

• The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Eggs

• 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

• Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Opportunity
  • Band
  • Singing

• If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Band

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

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band
  • Dance

• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Star
  • Key
  • France

• I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Scripture

• 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

• The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Done
  • Band

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Mad

• 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

• To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Time
  • Years
  • Goal

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