Band Quotes

• Team Rock: Away from the band Soundgarden, do you guys still hang out together?

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Together
  • Team
  • Rock

• 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
  • Band
  • Opinion
  • Joined

• Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Song
  • Made
  • Written

• Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal.

  

  Tom Araya Slayer
  • Band
  • Misconceptions
  • Worshippers

• At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Song
  • Record
  • Publish

• No matter how well a band performs, if its songs are a pile of junk, the group might as well not put the effort into it.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Songs
  • Junk
  • Performs

• I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Guy
  • Perfect
  • Bunch

• I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • God
  • Gift
  • Public

• You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.

  

  Jaimoe
  • Song
  • Band

• 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
  • Live
  • Band
  • Purple

• I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

  

  Adrian Belew
  • Band

• Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.

  

  Burning Spear
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Band

• We actually, as a band, have always been really adamant since the beginning about trying to be involved in charity any way we can.

  

  Mark Pontius
  • Trying
  • Beginning
  • Charity

• I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Band
  • Factories
  • Matched

• 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.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Work
  • Song
  • Stage

• When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a long time. For that kind of a band, for the kind of music that I've always made, we had a lot of success, I think.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Life
  • Band

• I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Band

• 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
  • Political
  • Past
  • Positive

• 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
  • Up
  • Age
  • Future

• When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work
  • Song
  • Political

• Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Problem
  • Distracting
  • Big band

• The Doors really were a band of potheads.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Band
  • The Doors
  • Potheads

• With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • People
  • Done
  • History

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