Band Quotes
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.
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In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.
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There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).
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King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.
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I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
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There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally.
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Being in this band the Spice Girls is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.
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Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.
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When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.
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You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.
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Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
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It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
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I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
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This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.
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You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
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Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
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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.
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When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.
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I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
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With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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You try to make a film, and you have to come up with the money. You need a big crew; you need to ask people for favors and get permission. If you have an idea for a song, you can pretty much go into your basement with your band mates and do it.
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We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
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I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
