Band Quotes

• Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Done
  • Art
  • Band

• We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Band

• The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.

  

  George Benson
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Joy

• I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Great
  • Band
  • Rock

• After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Band
  • Years
  • Decided

• 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

• 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 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

• It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Interesting
  • Successful
  • Performance

• I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • World
  • She
  • Remember

• So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Work
  • Done
  • Couple

• 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

• You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Band

• I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Different
  • Death
  • Band

• I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Band
  • Disappointed

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Difficult
  • New York

• Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Mean
  • Plenty

• 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.

  

  Margo Price
  • Time
  • Band
  • Tears

• I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Real
  • Wanted
  • Stones

• The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

  

  Luke Macfarlane
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Music
  • School
  • Band

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