Band Quotes

• The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• We didn't have any goal set, but we knew we had to work with someone who had a complete, almost encyclopedic knowledge of music. We wanted to make an album that sounded completely different but still had the heart and soul of the band. It's still The Strokes, but it's a very different form of The Strokes.

  

  Fabrizio Moretti
  • Different
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue where ego gets involved and causes some kind of shake-up.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Up
  • Band
  • Ego

• Most of our first gigs were in typical Devon pubs where you just go and sit down with a drink and watch VH-1 on the telly. They really didn't want to see a band. All they wanted was a quiet pint and we were in the corner just making a racket...

  

  Dominic Howard Muse
  • Drink
  • Gigs
  • Racket

• Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

  

  Peter Krause
  • Work
  • Together
  • Band

• I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Pressure
  • Producers
  • Labels

• Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Relationship
  • Advice
  • Communication

• I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Band
  • Rock

• When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Band
  • Scary

• I went right out, got a bass and learned how to play it. I stayed inside the whole time during Christmas break until I could come out and join the band.

  

  Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
  • Play
  • Learned
  • Went

• As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

  

  Alan Price
  • Band

• There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Why
  • Band

• I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.

  

  Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer Asia
  • Song
  • Voice
  • Written

• I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

  

  Lindsey Haun
  • Music
  • Country
  • Feeling

• I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

  

  Peter Noone
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

  

  Josiah Alexander Sila
  • Song
  • Freedom
  • Band

• Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.

  

  David Hepworth
  • 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

• My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

  

  Jonathan Knight
  • Band
  • Gay

• The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Reality
  • Band

• We looked at Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division. He was a very ultra cool, non-expressive character. Cutler is confident, but people sometimes mask their insecurities with confidence.

  

  Andrew Gower
  • People
  • Character
  • Joy

• I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

  

  Chris Bailey
  • Proud
  • Band

• I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

  

  Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
  • Remember
  • Friend
  • Crazy

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