Band Quotes

• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Good
  • Media
  • Depend

• Always from day one, we were the band on Warped Tour with a fog machine, and our backdrop had to be up - everyone thought we were the biggest idiots for that, total posers. But for us, we wanted to be over the top.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Band

• We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Period

• Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

  

  Dee Snider
  • Time
  • Band
  • Sister

• My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Parents

• The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.

  

  James Murphy
  • Band

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

  

  Chris Pine
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Couple

• I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Different
  • Band

• In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

  

  John Scofield
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

  

  Count Basie
  • Green
  • Arm
  • Freddie Green

• I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Live
  • Band

• After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty much all of 2015, and I just got bored; I got the itch. I wanna play.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Wife

• Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Band

• A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Life
  • Band
  • Dealing

• As scary as it is, we have to admit that there are folks in the world who only know the Roots as 'the band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.''

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • World
  • Band
  • Scary

• When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes. We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record. It's been us just slugging it out in the trenches and playing shows and proving to people every day that this band is legit and we're not going away.

  

  Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach
  • Fight
  • Prove
  • Realized

• The rest of the band Soundgarden thought it was silly of the press to concentrate on the beefcake when I was writing songs, singing, and playing guitar for the band. Even now, some people will stick a paragraph about my hair in the body of a review.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Rest

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Style

• The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to say that, but it's a personal opinion.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Band
  • Opinion
  • Slayer

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