Band Quotes

• Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

  

  Roger Taylor Queen
  • People
  • Band
  • Power Station

• My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Why
  • Band

• 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

• I write music. I'm in a band.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Music
  • Band

• I think Slayer is a funky band.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Band
  • Slayer

• We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Music
  • Band
  • Sensibility

• 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

• My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Real
  • Done
  • Respect

• Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Found

• Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • First
  • Harmonies
  • Rock Way

• When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things that have jazz elements but also a pop feel.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Band

• 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

• Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Aerosmith

• Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Family
  • School
  • Dad

• I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Single

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• about the name Disturbed It had been a name I have been contemplating for a band for years. It just seems to symbolize everything we were feeling at the time. The level of conformity that people are forced into was disturbing to us and we were just trying to push the envelope and the name just sorta made sense.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• 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
  • Band
  • Two
  • Skills

• There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I like those guys. Plus, Dave Matthews looks just like Forrest Gump.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • God
  • Band

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