Band Quotes

• It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Good
  • Done
  • Song

• When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • World
  • Work
  • Bad

• 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

• Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Cool

• The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Wish
  • Band

• 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

• Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Up
  • Music
  • Fun

• People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?

  

  Dave Grohl Foo Fighters
  • Why
  • Band

• Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

  

  Christian Kane
  • School
  • Together
  • Friend

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

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Band

• Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Good
  • Band

• If you know me at all, you know how big this is for me. brendancanty has been the most influential drummer on me from my first band to everything I’ve ever played on.

  

  Adam David "Atom" Willard
  • Band
  • Drummer
  • Influential

• Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Up
  • Music
  • Business

• 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

• In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Energy
  • Band
  • Player

• There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Way
  • Years
  • Perception

• 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

• The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

  

  John Sebastian
  • Band

• I write music. I'm in a band.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Music
  • Band

• My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Bad

• There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• I love playing with this band it feels new again. I love playing with Cinderella, but there's not new going on with them right now. We go on tour every other summer, make some money, have a blast, and it's great to get back with the guys again. But with Naked Beggars, for Eric and I, it's a chance to do new music, stuff we can write and record, and then take it to the road ourselves, and have fun.

  

  Jeff LaBar Cinderella
  • Great
  • Love
  • Chance

• 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

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