Band Quotes
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I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.
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When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
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I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.
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A band is not a democracy: It's show business.
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Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.
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I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.
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The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.
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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.
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I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.
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Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'
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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.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
