Band Quotes

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

Pete Best
- Great
- America
- History
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Billy Sherwood Yes
- Up
- Family
- Father

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
- School
- Family
- Dad
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

John Philip Sousa
- Believe
- Country
- Band
There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.

Jamie Lawson
- Band
When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
- Change
- Record
- Frontline
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
I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.

Danny DeVito
- Stop
- Band