Band Quotes

• I don't feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It's not really that entertaining. I've seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Live
  • Real
  • Amazing

• I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Life
  • Why
  • Band

• I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Band
  • Shows
  • Pop Music

• To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.

  

  James Murphy
  • Band

• When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Energy
  • Crazy

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

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Band

• I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Band

• 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

• 'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Song
  • Band

• My first memory of Nirvana was getting a cassette of demos, which ended up becoming Bleach. Everybody's response was that this was an amazing band and these were amazing songs. It was another indication that the Northwest had something special that you couldn't argue with.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Band

• 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

• 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

• If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Grandmother

• 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

• Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Cool

• I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Thinking
  • Band

• And the heavy night hung dark,The hills and waters o'er,When a band of exiles moored their barkOn the wild New England shore.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Night
  • Band
  • Dark

• I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Band

• The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Small
  • 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

• One of the things that I've noticed since I've been in the band is that, as players, Lars, James, and Kirk truly enjoy making music and performing.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Band
  • Noticed
  • Making Music

• The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Band

• The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • World
  • Band
  • Queens

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