Band Quotes

• Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Wise
  • Understand
  • Project

• The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Over
  • Metallica
  • Drumstick

• Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Band
  • Rock

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

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Band

• A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Unique
  • Players
  • Bands

• 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

• 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

• When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Band

• Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Guy
  • Feeling
  • Band

• I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.

  

  Bjork
  • Girl
  • Band

• The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Women
  • Inspiration
  • Growing Up

• 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

• In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Music
  • Giving

• A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

  

  Adrian Smith Iron Maiden
  • Perfect
  • Star
  • Couple

• The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Style
  • Guitar

• When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Rock

• But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Band

• Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

  

  Adrian Belew
  • Band
  • Lonely

• Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Band
  • Halloween

• 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

• How does a band like System of a Down get big?

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Band

• 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

• It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Cool

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