Band Quotes
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I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
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I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.
Mark Frauenfelder
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
Roger Taylor Queen
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I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond... with my body.
Kimbra Lee Johnson
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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.
Luke Macfarlane
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At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.
Amy Ray
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I think Slayer is a funky band.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.
Chris Owen
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I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Kristin Hersh
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It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
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We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.
David Bryan Bon Jovi
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I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.
Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
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For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.
Alfie Allen
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What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
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I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
Jason Newsted Metallica
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I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.
Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
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They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
Eric Reed Boucher
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I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.
Christina Perri
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There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.
Pat Metheny
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At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.
Jon Pardi
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It's the combination of songs and styles the band uses that makes them so unique. They have diversity and a witty flare about them that audiences relate to.
J. M. Roberts
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The Beatles were perfect. There's just no other way to say it. They were the perfect band.
Danny Wood The Black