Band Quotes

• Well, the journey for En Vogue still to this day has been absolutely amazing. We’ve been blessed with a lot of success and continued success because here we are about to release our forthcoming record titled, Electric Cafe.

  

  Terry Ellis En Vogue
  • Success
  • Band
  • Journey

• I just wanted to do my own thing after The Murderdolls. The Murderdolls were so spread out all across the US that we couldn't just say, "Let's go rehearse." For us we had like four days to rehearse because everyone had to book flights, so we just never got as tight as most bands should be.

  

  Joseph Michael Poole
  • Book
  • Should
  • Flight

• You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

  

  John Cho
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Athlete

• The Doors really were a band of potheads.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Band
  • The Doors
  • Potheads

• I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Time
  • Death
  • Rock

• The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

  

  Ken Hensley
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Career

• Band I listen to most: The Ramones.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Band

• I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

  

  John Entwistle The Who
  • Happy
  • Band

• You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that's not really my approach.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Real
  • Rock
  • Changes

• 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
  • People
  • Success
  • Band

• My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

  

  Jerry Only
  • People
  • Job
  • Band

• I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them for helping me make my own way in my own career.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• It's a big deal when you play in a rock band and you conquer Japan. You know, it's a big deal.

  

  Johnny Colt The Black Crowes
  • Band
  • Rock

• Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• At rehearsals, I began conducting the band, counting them in without thinking. I guess it came from watching salsa legends like my uncle and Tito Puente, who was very much the leader of his band on stage.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Thinking
  • Band
  • Uncle

• Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• 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
  • Band
  • Environment
  • Listened

• 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
  • Children
  • Feels
  • Stars

• Come Taste the Band. That was the only Deep Purple lineup I really liked. It was really funky and different for hard rock.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Funky
  • Hard Rock

• 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
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Band

• I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Up
  • Today
  • Water

• A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don't want to sound like we're copying anyone, including ourselves, so we're moving on.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • People
  • Style
  • Moving

• With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Way
  • Voice
  • Ella

• It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.

  

  J. C. R. Licklider
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Together

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