Band Quotes

• We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Band

• We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Decision

• The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

  

  Brad Delson Linkin Park
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Band

• When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Guy

• It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Band

• I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Enjoy

• It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Good
  • Done
  • Song

• 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
  • Work
  • School
  • Engineering

• If I wasn’t in this band and I read some of these things, I’d think that I was a complete twat.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Band
  • Read
  • Twat

• KISS is the most brilliant band ever to be alive, and Gene Simmons is the coolest guy that ever lived.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Guy
  • Kiss
  • Brilliant

• In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

  

  Neal Schon
  • People
  • Band
  • Famous

• I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • College

• Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Strong
  • Sick
  • Name

• 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

• When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.

  

  John Hughes
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

  

  James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
  • Morning
  • Band

• The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Life
  • Music
  • Band

• Because I'm sort of an honorary Canadian, I don't think the others grasped the cultural significance of who the Tragically Hip were before the tour. Talking to Sheryl Crow and her people and the guys in Wilco, everyone was ecstatic to be on the tour, it was a lot of fun. But it even took me a while to grasp the idea that this is not just a band, this is a cultural artifact, what the Hip means in Canada. There is nobody else like them.

  

  Steve Berlin Los Lobos
  • Band
  • Tour
  • Artifact

• Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with other members of the band.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Band

• Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.

  

  James McBride
  • Band

• When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Band

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