Band Quotes
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
Daron Malakian System Of A Down
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
Landon Liboiron
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We were just a high school band that loved music, you know?
Steve Lukather Toto
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This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.
Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach
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I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.
Donnie Iris
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What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.
James Murphy
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I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
Artie Shaw
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It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.
Brittany Howard
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
Wanda Jackson
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Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
Barry Cornwall
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
Waylon Jennings
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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
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My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.
Don Was
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
Raf Simons
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The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.
Washed Out
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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
Don McLean
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I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.
Jon Fishman
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My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
Pete Townshend The Who
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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam