Band Quotes

• Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Aerosmith

• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Character
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

  

  Janis Joplin
  • Band
  • Rock

• I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • Band

• Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Free
  • Band

• After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • World
  • Years
  • Soccer

• There's a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica's 'And Justice for All.' If you listen to a little bit of that before you go on stage, you're pretty much set for the whole show.

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Pretty
  • Band
  • Justice

• My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Pretty
  • Band
  • Son

• This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mind
  • Hair
  • Littles

• I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'

  

  Beth Orton
  • People
  • Band

• When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Important
  • Band
  • Ever

• I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

  

  Ashton Irwin 5 Seconds of Summer
  • Band
  • Green

• One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.

  

  James Murphy
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Famous

• There is pow'r, there is pow'rIn a band of workingmen.When they stand hand in hand,That's a pow'r, that's a pow'rThat must rule in every land -One Industrial Union Grand.

  

  Joe Hill
  • Hand
  • Band

• The leader of the band is tiredAnd his eyes are growing oldBut his blood runs through my instrumentAnd his song is in my soul -My life has been a poor attemptTo imitate the man.I'm just a living legacyTo the leader of the band.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Song

• It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones. 'Trane took me aside, and, of course, we did Blue Trane, which was my first album-and that started everything. He had confidence that I didn't have; he saw something that I didn't see.

  

  Curtis Fuller
  • Band
  • Courses
  • Chamber

• We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Listening
  • Guitar
  • Bored

• As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Band
  • Shadow

• With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Play
  • Rock
  • Same

• We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Cool

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