Band Quotes
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We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
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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.
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I used to hear all these guys on 78s at my mother's when I was a teenager... I used to daydream that I was onstage playing the solos; I'm playing with B.B. King, and I'm playing with Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy McCracklin. And I literally ended up being in a band that backed them up at different clubs.
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A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
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We The Replacements formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.
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Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.
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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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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.
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I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.
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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
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When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
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With my band, I feel comfortable anywhere in the world.
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You try to make a film, and you have to come up with the money. You need a big crew; you need to ask people for favors and get permission. If you have an idea for a song, you can pretty much go into your basement with your band mates and do it.
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My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.
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It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
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The band is really, really honoring the level of musicianship and quality that Ratt has always tried to maintain. And the response has been positive.
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This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
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The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
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When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.
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You can never tell with New Order. Just when you think the band is coming to an end, it takes off again.
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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.
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All the videos we have done have been our ideas, our concepts. We're a very conscious band of the way we present ourselves onstage and the artwork for the record and everything like that. So every time we do videos, it's the same thing. We sit down with the director and have him make our vision come true.
