Band Quotes
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In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
Andy Gibb
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When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
Jason Mraz
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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.
John F. Kerry
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
Gary Lineker
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Also there's two sides of it, I mean, a band like us, at our level and the way we have to promote ourselves and usually radio just completely turns their back on us, at the same time I think Mp3s help promote us somewhat, spreading the word about the album and stuff.
Kenny Hickey
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I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
Levon Helm
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Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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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.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)
Yenz Leonhardt
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I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements
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I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
Chad Smith Chickenfoot
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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.
Rob Zombie
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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
Ian Hacking
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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.
James Murphy
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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
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We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.
Mark Foster Foster the People
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Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.
Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
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I'm a lead singer of a band, and that's so enough. It's not like I need to have my name on everything. The new name 'Scandal, Featuring Patty Smyth' was just to make it clear that I wasn't leaving the group.
Patty Smyth
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When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
George Benson
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The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!
Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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It's a farmers market. You can get whatever - peaches, a sandwich. There might be a little band there. I'd sit in with the band. Yeah, that's what I would do. Sit in with the band at the farmers market. Sing a couple of songs, eat a peach, and hug people.
Craig Robinson