Band Quotes

• The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Band
  • Always
  • Never

• When I was 21, I was in a pretty serious band, and we almost got signed - went to New York, showcased, all that - but didn't end up getting signed, and we broke up. I went back to the drawing board; I really took a hit from that whole experience.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• 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

• Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Band

• (Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a 'ruler of men'. His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Respect
  • Day
  • Learning

• U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.

  

  John Scofield
  • Song
  • Band

• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Band

• Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Crazy

• It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • 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 was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • People
  • Band
  • Rock

• I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • Assuming
  • Campaigns
  • Campaigning

• None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Band
  • Really
  • Other

• It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

  

  James Gleick
  • True
  • Free
  • Rock

• The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

  

  Angus Young
  • America
  • Girl
  • Band

• It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Honest
  • Loving
  • Deserves

• I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Band
  • Name
  • Group

• I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Band

• Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Causes

• We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Country
  • Band
  • Rock

• I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Brother

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