Band Quotes

• There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Popular

• I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Band
  • Boy

• Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Country
  • Band
  • Lawyer

• I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Family
  • Together
  • Dad

• 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

• The magic's in my hands When in doubt I whip it out I got me a rock 'n' roll band It's a free-for-all

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Free
  • Rock
  • Doubt

• I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

  

  Christopher Masterson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Band

• I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Band

• We've always been a band that questions things.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Band

• We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.

  

  Chris Lane
  • People
  • Night
  • Band

• I'm the kind of person who, if I like one song, will listen to all of the band's work before moving on to another group.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Work
  • Song
  • Moving

• I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Time
  • Band
  • Failure

• 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 also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Remember
  • Mad
  • Truck

• I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

  

  Kristin Hersh
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Stupid

• One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Band

• I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Writing
  • Singer
  • Express

• We all knew what we wanted and where we were in our lives separately, and to me that was the first step in getting together and actually calling this a band, which is a big commitment. It's one thing writing music together and going through those motions, but actually committing to being a band is a huge thing.

  

  Robert DeLeo Stone Temple Pilots
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • First Step

• Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Rock
  • Dying
  • Mountain

• 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

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