Band Quotes
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I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
James Arthur
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I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.
Douglas Carter Beane
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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.
Paul Westerberg
The Replacements
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Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.
Valentina Tereshkova
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Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
Tom Araya
Slayer
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I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
Kirk Hammett
Metallica
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We’re very impatient. We don’t believe that in bands you should dwell on the future. Any band that you and I have listened to, if it’s overworked, if it’s thought about before then, it’s never going to happen. I think you have to be writing, you have to be arguing, you have to be in that environment.
Jules De Martino
The Ting Tings
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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
Mark Hoppus
Blink-182
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When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel like an outsider. I was treated equally, I was paid equally, and my opinion was sought after.
Gillian Gilbert
New Order