Band Quotes

• I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• 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

• There were only about 50 people there, and they were all enjoying the band, and almost all were dancing. One fellow was standing off to the side watching for the longest time; it was Dustin Hoffman. He loved it. He said it reminded him of when he was a little boy and his parents took him to see Ted Lewis. Martin Short was a riot. He said, "I wanna sing with Johnny Crawford!".

  

  Johnny Crawford
  • People
  • Time
  • Parents

• 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

• 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

• I think what's cool about Slayer is no matter how old their albums are, it's the one band to me that their sound is immortal. It never sounds corny to me. You can go back and listen to some Pantera and Metallica albums, and you're like, 'OK, great music.' But Slayer, you go back, and they always sound fresh and hard as hell.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • Great
  • Music
  • Cool

• The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Understanding
  • Discipline
  • Army

• Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Change

• System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn't find at the store. It's the band I wanted to be a fan of.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Band

• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

  

  Brad Delson Linkin Park
  • Band
  • Inspired

• I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

  

  Patti LuPone
  • People
  • School
  • High

• 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

• Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Simple
  • Thankful

• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fall

• I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Mind
  • Rock
  • Successful

• Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.

  

  Peter Noone
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Bored

• I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Together
  • Band

• Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Friend

• There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Success
  • Band
  • Rock

• Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

  

  John Philip Sousa
  • Band
  • Quality

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