Band Quotes

• When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Live
  • School

• It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Funny

• 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

• I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • People
  • Success
  • 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

• The Meatbats are a throwback band.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Band

• One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Pet

• The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.

  

  Adrian Smith Iron Maiden
  • People
  • Band
  • Integrity

• Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Happy
  • Movement
  • Producer

• My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.

  

  Coby Bell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dad

• Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it was a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • School
  • Band

• A band is as solid as its drummer is.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • 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

• With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two years and became popular there. A guy representing a rock band came to our show in Budapest, saw 60,000 people get excited for a band from America that nobody in America knew, and told someone at RCA.

  

  JC Chasez NSYNC
  • People
  • America
  • Guy

• I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them for helping me make my own way in my own career.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Different
  • Band
  • Rock

• Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Even though there's only two guys in the band, when both of us are on the same page about something, you can't really change our minds.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Band

• I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Band

• Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Different
  • Band

• I wouldn't do go to another band.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Band

• We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Success
  • Band
  • Failure

• When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel like an outsider. I was treated equally, I was paid equally, and my opinion was sought after.

  

  Gillian Gilbert New Order
  • Band
  • Opinion
  • Joined

• I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Knows

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