Band Quotes

• 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

• I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Life
  • Band

• Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Band
  • Good Times
  • Misunderstandings

• I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Band

• I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Band
  • Beliefs
  • Ashamed

• 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

• It's the combination of songs and styles the band uses that makes them so unique. They have diversity and a witty flare about them that audiences relate to.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Songs
  • Combination
  • Styles

• You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Successful
  • Company
  • Demos

• 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.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Society
  • Band

• I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Guy
  • Perfect
  • Bunch

• I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Fun
  • Band

• When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a long time. For that kind of a band, for the kind of music that I've always made, we had a lot of success, I think.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I dressed as the Riddler once, when I was little too heavy to do. I would wear tights. My brother was in a hair metal band, and he had Riddler tights made. My brother's a geek, but he was in a heavy metal band, so I'm a chubby fifteen-year-old, and I borrow his Riddler tights and wear them to school with the package. That wasn't a good idea.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • Good
  • School
  • Hair

• It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Faster

• It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • World
  • Today
  • Band

• No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • People
  • Asking
  • Dealer

• That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

  

  Chris Chaney Jane's Addiction
  • Fun
  • Things
  • Excuse

• 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 have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • Up
  • Age
  • Future

• King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Band
  • Famous
  • King

• But the reality is that we are a folk band.

  

  Amy Ray
  • Reality
  • Band

• And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Beach
  • Latin
  • Flash

• You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • World
  • Happy
  • City

• There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you know, you're going to stay in touch with 'em, it's not the same, you know? The band kind of breaks up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • House

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