Band Quotes
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After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
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I actually knew Sully's sister, and I was in a band called Stripmind, and then I became roommates with Sully and being out of a band, he asked if I wanted to join in his. Tony was originally the second guitarist in the band; a guy by the name of Lee Richards was the first. The rest is pretty much history.
Robbie Merrill Godsmack
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The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!
Martin Denny
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Our band will never change, we will always be 5 singing idiots .
Niall Horan One Direction
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If I were George W. Bush, I would be terrorized by the eyes of those scruffy-looking veterans, the so-called band of brothers, volunteering for duty with the Kerry campaign. They look like men with scores to settle.
B. R. Hayden
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I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength
Steve Albini Big Black
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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
Barry Commoner
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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
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To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Stanley Robert Vinton
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I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
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When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.
Chris Chaney Jane's Addiction
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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
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You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.
Bret Michael Sychak Poison
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My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Louis Prima
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I was a wallflower when I was younger, and at a young age, I was too embarrassed. So I didn't start dancing until around 20, and obviously when you're in a boy band, you kinda have to.
Drew Lachey
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I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.
Diana Krall
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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.
Ariel Rechtshaid
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I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.
Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
Meghan Trainor
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We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
Dave Blood
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Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead