Band Quotes

• I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Bad
  • Amazing
  • Band

• Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

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

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
  • World
  • Dream
  • Famous

• Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Live
  • Home
  • Band

• I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Together
  • Day
  • Myself

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Car

• Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

  

  Psy
  • Band
  • Rock

• I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • School
  • Guy

• We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Present
  • Emotional
  • Journey

• 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
  • Favorite
  • Incredible
  • Dresden Dolls

• Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Work
  • Music
  • Words

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

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Band
  • Leaves
  • Coffin

• 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

• This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Live

• You can't deny a band whose fans will literally do anything to see them win the awards. We're very appreciative to the fan base. That mutual feeling of appreciation is something that really helps.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Appreciation

• No band is special, no player royalty.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Band
  • Player

• 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

• From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Playing
  • Dwarfs
  • Harps

• 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

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

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