Band Quotes
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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
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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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Fame and all that type of stuff is inevitable, but I'm very content having a good band with no negativity, and everyone is on the same page.
Leon Bridges
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The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.
John Zorn
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.
Illinois Jacquet
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Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr.
Alice in Chains
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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
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You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.
John Corabi
Mötley Crüe
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I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.
M. Shadows
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Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
Beck
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
Gary Rossington
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La Tengo and Bedhead. There are other things too, like Pavement. They're a great band, with really good lyrics. But generally, I'm not overwhelmed by the state of indie-rock.
Dean Wareham
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KISS is the most brilliant band ever to be alive, and Gene Simmons is the coolest guy that ever lived.
Edward Furlong
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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
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I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
Jerome Charyn
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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
