Band Quotes
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The band and I really enjoy working for people who enjoy the music. I haven't made a bazillion dollars doing this. I do it because I love it. I did it for free and will do it for free in the morning.
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As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
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There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.
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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.
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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
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To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.
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When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.
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The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.
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I love Willie Nelson's 'Phases And Stages'; there's so many songs from The Band and Bob Dylan that have gotten me through hard times, like 'Tears Of Rage.' I love Karen Dalton's 'In My Own Time' and Skip James.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.
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Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.
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Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.
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I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.
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It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
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Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.
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Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.
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We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.
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I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.
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I read in a rock magazine that our band had broken up, so I stopped going to rehearsal
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
