Band Quotes

• I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Up
  • Live
  • Song

• When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Change
  • Record
  • Frontline

• A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • People
  • Band

• I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Dark

• 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.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Interesting
  • Band

• I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Up
  • Different
  • Feeling

• Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Hungry
  • Smoke
  • Blackberries

• I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Real
  • Band

• Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric, and I'm so grateful for that in moments of pain or of suffering - that I have this means of channeling it; it's really amazing. My band as well - having them around and being able to jump on stage and bond together and share that energy is really uplifting as well.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Music
  • Together
  • Energy

• I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up
  • Music
  • Taken

• After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Feeling
  • Band

• I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Real
  • School
  • Money

• Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• We've been here since 1983 as a band.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Band
  • Been
  • Here

• With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Band
  • Voice
  • I Can

• A lot of these songs were written for our first album. One of them, Shuffle Your Feet, was from before we were a band even. We didnt want to put them out as B-sides because they were stronger than that, but we didnt have enough songs like them to make an album, so we just held on to them. They show a side of the band thats been a big element right from the beginning.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Songs
  • Side
  • Element

• We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Band

• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • High
  • Growing
  • Joy

• They were my friends. Those guys were like The Monkees. They lived in this house all together... no joke, the whole band all together in the same house, and they were really fun. They were really young guys and they lived the real Rock life. Of course it all went horribly wrong later, but they were great.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Trying
  • Band

• Thinking Slayer's music is not my thing doesn't mean I don't respect the band for what they are and what they've done. I just won't play it. As I can imagine they won't listen to mine either, for that matter.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Imagine

• I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Band
  • Latin
  • Bike

• The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

  

  Elliott Smith
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Band

• When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

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