Band Quotes

• Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Career
  • Band
  • Confidence

• People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• 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 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

• I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Good
  • Band

• 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

• Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Time
  • Country
  • School

• '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

• We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Band
  • Positive

• 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

• We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Up
  • Age
  • Band

• My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

  

  Doug Flutie
  • Live
  • Song
  • Band

• The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Band
  • Competition

• I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Kids
  • Single
  • Mom

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

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Band
  • Always
  • Never

• Seeing people communicate about the band online has been amazing, but I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

  

  Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr.
  • Band
  • Jealousy

• 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

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

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Band

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

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Band
  • Leaves
  • Coffin

• 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

• 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

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