Band Quotes

• There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Band

• Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Band
  • Heaven
  • Ugly

• Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Band
  • Leaves
  • Coffin

• I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Band
  • Stage
  • Judging

• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Makeup

• The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Life
  • Band

• Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Road
  • Brother
  • Inspiration

• XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Children
  • Death
  • Try

• Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • Band
  • Imagination

• Nightwish is my band, and so is Revamp. They both get my 100 percent, which is why I also cannot do them both at the same time. They're both my babies.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Band
  • Babies
  • Revamp

• It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
  • World
  • Dream
  • Famous

• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Life
  • Real
  • Past

• I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.

  

  Washed Out
  • Remember
  • Doubt
  • Internet

• '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

• You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Guy
  • Today
  • Kind

• Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Done
  • Art
  • Band

• We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Done
  • Song

• New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Band

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

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Band
  • Always
  • Never

• 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

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

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • World
  • Band
  • Queens

• One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.

  

  James Murphy
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Famous

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