Band Quotes

• To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Long
  • Cool
  • Couple

• As a promoter, of course, you'd really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even more connected with the band.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • People
  • Band

• Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Work
  • Song
  • Stage

• Duane Allman was bursting with energy ... he was a force to be reckoned with. His drive and focus, as well as his intense belief in himself and our band, was incredible. He knew we were going to make it. We all knew we were a good band, but no one had that supreme confidence like he did, and it was a great thing, because his confidence and enthusiam were infectious... it says a lot that his hero was Muhammad Ali. That kind of supreme confidence that Ali had - that's where Duane was coming from.

  

  Forrest Richard Betts The Allman Brothers Band
  • Energy
  • Confidence
  • Belief

• It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Feels
  • Apologizing
  • Humiliating

• What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Live
  • Money
  • Band

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

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Life
  • Band

• Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Band
  • Sometimes
  • Happens

• I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Work
  • Band
  • Weird

• Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Band

• Y’know we all have stuff that we do apart from a-ha – I have another band – and that kinda stuff sorta works for us.

  

  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
  • Band
  • Stuff
  • Works

• 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.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • People
  • Done
  • History

• I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

  

  Jason Newsted Metallica
  • Nice
  • Band

• I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Kids
  • Forever
  • Feels

• A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Ideas
  • Songs
  • Stage

• the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Great
  • Band

• I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band

• 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

• So, Hanson, which one of you boys is coming home with me tonight? (greeting the band Hanson)

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Home
  • Band

• I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of this information you realize that they are just people and that actually takes away a little bit from the aura of somebody.

  

  John R. Bush Armored Saint
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Realizing

• I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Musician

• I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Experience
  • Career
  • Band

• We never were shaped by anything. The music business as a large behemoth entity told us what we should be, so we went in the other direction. We do what we wanna do, we’re self-confident, we wanna put ideas on the table we feel are important, we wanna play music that’s aggressive and confrontational but at its heart humane. People at the top have told us over the years that we should be doing other things, and you should never be arrogant enough not to listen to people, but after you’ve considered things if you feel it’s not the right thing to do on principle then don’t do it. Live and die by what you think your own band should be, and that’s what we’ve done. We never had ideas above our station, we never had ideas to be the biggest band in the world – we wanted to make a lot of fucking noise, satisfy ourselves and the people that come to see us. We’re high energy, no fucking around.

  

  Barney Greenway Benediction
  • World
  • Music
  • Business

• Hey, the band was rockin' Goin' around and around Well, reelin' and a rockin' What a crazy sound Well, they never stopped rockin' Till the moon went down

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Crazy
  • Band
  • Moon

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