Band Quotes
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None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.
Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
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It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
Bret Michael Sychak Poison
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Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands come out like that. I think it is great.
Michael Sweet Boston
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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).
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.
Burning Spear
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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
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I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.
Courtney Love
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A certain scenario kept repeating itself. The people from the magazines would take two or three shots of the band. They’d start to pack up. And then they’d sort of take me off into a corner by myself. After about the thirtieth time that a photographer asked me to take my shirt off, I started to get the picture.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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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
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it’s fun, because we all get along as a band, and there is so much demand for our music, we have to get out there and fulfil that, and it’s amazing.
Jean-Jacques Burnel The Stranglers
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'Frayed Ends Of Sanity' off the 'Justice' album is a song that I really wanted to play with the band, and for years and years, I was always like, 'Let's play this song!' But I'll tell you something: I started working on that song almost from the very first time I joined the band.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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I grew up on a council estate in Luton, and as a child, I was very much into the brass-band tradition. I was basically a Salvation Army boy. My English granddad bought me a cornet when I was five years old.
Colin Salmon
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I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer Asia
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I really enjoy navigating the business aspect of having a band, and there is a great amount of instinct. You don't wanna work with people who make you feel weird, even if they're super qualified.
Lucy Dacus
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I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.
Jerry Only
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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No matter how well a band performs, if its songs are a pile of junk, the group might as well not put the effort into it.
Steve Clark Def Leppard
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Zeppelin were a blues band but also so much more, as were The Stones.
Phil Collen Def Leppard