Band Quotes
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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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Disharmony is natural in any band.
Joan Jett
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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
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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
Andy Summers The Police
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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.
Neko Case
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I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones.
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
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Our band will never change, we will always be 5 singing idiots .
Niall Horan One Direction
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Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's Kessler insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."
Paul Banks Interpol
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Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.
Lisa Loeb
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We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.
David Bryan Bon Jovi
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We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.
Natalie Maines
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People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'
Emily Robison
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The image of the band has always been something that's evolved or changed with every record cycle that we've done. I think, in a lot of respects, that's because we were so interested in having a visual representation for the music that we were making.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.
Lindsey Stirling
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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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When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
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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!
Ken Hensley
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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.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith
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There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you know, you're going to stay in touch with 'em, it's not the same, you know? The band kind of breaks up.
Barack Obama
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Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.
Austin Carlile
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There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.
George Jones Mr. President (band)
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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.
Peter Krause