Band Quotes
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Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.
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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.
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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.
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I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band.
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In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
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The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.
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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.
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Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.
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The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.
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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.
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We didn't have any goal set, but we knew we had to work with someone who had a complete, almost encyclopedic knowledge of music. We wanted to make an album that sounded completely different but still had the heart and soul of the band. It's still The Strokes, but it's a very different form of The Strokes.
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When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
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In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
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I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.
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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.
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What was accomplished in 'Band of Brothers' was incredible, from the writing and producing to the performances of the actors who honored all those men that fought bravely and gave the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy today.
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This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.
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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.
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Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.
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Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
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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.
