Band Quotes

• King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Band
  • Famous
  • King

• When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are the songs I chose to sing as a cover band.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Church
  • Band

• 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

• I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Paul McCartney
  • Ringo Starr
  • Keith Richards

• Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Band
  • Halloween

• I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Band
  • Green

• Yes's whole career was never really planned in any sort of way. It's always sad when a member leaves, but it's exciting when someone new comes in, and that regenerates the freshness of the band.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • Career
  • Band
  • Sad

• I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Player

• One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Great
  • Band
  • Listening

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I have loved music since I was a baby and had the chance to begin early. At 14 I had my first band, a quartet, and then many others until I was 19 playing Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mamas & The Papas, Crosby, Stills... today we'd call them "cover bands

  

  Fabio Frizzi
  • Music
  • Today
  • Chance

• What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Stop

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

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Together
  • Team
  • Rock

• I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

  

  Andrae Crouch
  • God
  • Song
  • Greatness

• History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Good
  • History
  • Fly

• I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

  

  Diplo
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Band

• You can never tell with New Order. Just when you think the band is coming to an end, it takes off again.

  

  Gillian Gilbert New Order
  • Think
  • Band
  • New Order

• I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

  

  Bridget Hall
  • Band
  • Cool
  • Rock

• I think we're a working man's band.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Band

• Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Strong
  • Sick
  • Name

• But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Band

• Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

  

  Adam Rich
  • People
  • Rock
  • Lyrics

• I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Band
  • Beliefs
  • Ashamed

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