Band Quotes
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I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.
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Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
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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.
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Q: Radiohead fans tend to be extremely devoted to the band - they seem to connect with your music and ideals. What do you see as the major aspects of your music which people connect with so well?
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The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.
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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.
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
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I've learned that things change. The whole boy band thing almost turned into a stock market crash.
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Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
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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.
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I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
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I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.
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I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
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We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.
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I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sidekick and a band, and I wrote the whole thing. And it had the form of a late-night talk show, but we did it on stage because no one was giving me a TV show at the time.
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It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
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So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
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I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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Horns really make a good band. They always create excitement when it's needed. They give the music a broader spread. It doesn't have to be all guitars and keyboards all the time.
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I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.
