Band Quotes
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I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
Martina McBride
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Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!
Don Ellis
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Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'
Neal McDonough
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I had never seen Sepultura live before. This was my first time. I now believe they're the greatest band ever.
Dez Fafara Coal Chamber
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I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.
Earl Stevens
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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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We looked at Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division. He was a very ultra cool, non-expressive character. Cutler is confident, but people sometimes mask their insecurities with confidence.
Andrew Gower
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When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are the songs I chose to sing as a cover band.
Chris Lane
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For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.
Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.
J. C. R. Licklider
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Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
Roger Daltrey The Who
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I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.
Peter Noone
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I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith
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I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.
Jeff Ament
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To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.
Psy
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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
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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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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.
Brian Fallon
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They The Beatles were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.
James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
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I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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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