Band Quotes
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No band is special, no player royalty.
Krist Novoselic
Nirvana
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Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
James Young
Styx
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When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
Brooke Burke
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KISS is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.
Gene Klein
Kiss
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If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.
Lindsey Buckingham
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With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.
Robert Lee Hatfield
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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
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We don't want to be as big as U2. I like U2. It's a band that still makes good records. We'd like to make a couple more good records.
Jonny Buckland
Coldplay
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When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds.
Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.
Jane Wiedlin
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I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
Caroline Corr
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The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
Charlie Simpson
Busted