Band Quotes

• It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Faster

• I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

  

  Gerard Butler
  • Rock
  • Training
  • Festivals

• I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Pressure
  • Producers
  • Labels

• It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Band
  • Wake Up
  • I Remember

• I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

  

  Chris Bailey
  • Proud
  • Band

• 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!

  

  Ken Hensley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work
  • Political
  • Band

• Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Relationship
  • Advice
  • Communication

• What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Together
  • Education
  • Jesus

• I wouldn't do go to another band.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Band

• I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Knows

• We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Time
  • Band
  • Couple

• 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
  • Fear
  • Respect
  • Band

• A good producer. His job is not only to help a band make a great record, but also to bring out the best in his musicians by creating an encouraging, comfortable atmosphere in the studio, so that everyone feels good about themselves.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Musicians
  • Producer
  • Great Record

• 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.

  

  Dennis Lyxzén AC4
  • Director
  • Conscious
  • Onstage

• I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do.

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • Guy
  • Band

• Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

  

  Adam Rich
  • Band

• No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • People
  • Asking
  • Dealer

• I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • I Think
  • Direction
  • Tape

• The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Reality
  • Band

• One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • World
  • School
  • High

• When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Band
  • Scary

• Fall Out Boy used to be my favorite rock band.

  

  Burna Boy
  • Rock
  • Used
  • Favorite

• When I was a kid, I was into hardcore music. The scene in New York was tiny. Every person hanging out was in a band and played at the A7 Club. There was not much rehearsing or anything. Just doing.

  Dito Montiel
  • Music
  • Band

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