Band Quotes

• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • America
  • Player
  • Listening

• Being in a band is all about compromise. When everybody can compromise and still feel they're going in the right direction, then you have a happy band.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Direction
  • Compromise

• This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Music
  • Real
  • Collaboration

• The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Band
  • Copies
  • Velvet Underground

• Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
  • Good
  • Band

• On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • People
  • Live
  • Challenge

• The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.

  

  Kelly Jones
  • Time
  • Country
  • Band

• I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Band

• So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Dad

• At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

  

  Gerry Beckley America
  • Different
  • Nice
  • Unique

• Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Popular

• Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

  

  Kathy Valentine
  • Past
  • Band

• We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Small
  • Band

• I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I love both real and fake jewelry. My kids make me necklaces, and I wear those, too. Every day, I wear my gold wedding band and the Cartier watch my husband gave me.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Husband

• We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Live
  • Done
  • Band

• What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Band
  • Lacked

• Bismarck traveling in an open carriage through the green valley of Hofgastein to Salzburg with Vortragender Rat Robert von Keudell and Geheimrat Heinrich Abeken on 18 August 1865 after the Gastein Convention had been signed on 14 August 1865 (as reported by Keudell). Bismarck: Die gesammelten Werke, Band 7 Gespräche, 1924, p. 101

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die
  • Green
  • August

• In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Movie
  • Band
  • Waiting

• If Harry Connick Jr. wants to call me and ask me to join his band, that would be fine with me. I'm happy, but if he calls, I would pick up.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Band

• People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Up
  • Picture

• Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Revisits the Band’s Five Records. Noisey (June 7, 2018).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Band
  • June

• The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.

  

  Jake Epstein
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

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