Band Quotes

• Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Band

• I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • London

• The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Band

• It's how I learned to play guitar - sitting with Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick records, backing the needle up and learning how to play along. When the band started, by doing something that was very obvious to us and sort of traditional, it set us apart at the time from what was happening musically.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Learning

• It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Time
  • Band
  • Brother

• Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Friends
  • Band
  • Great Deal

• I was used to carrying a mass sound by myself," "not to mention composing everything myself, so it was great and really helpful to get reacquainted with playing in a band again.

  

  Tyondai Braxton Battles
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Playing

• Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• If I wasn't in the band I reckon I'd be a virgin.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Band
  • Virgin
  • Reckon

• That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band

• I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • School
  • High
  • Rock

• When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

  

  John Sebastian
  • People
  • Band
  • Bee

• A certain scenario kept repeating itself. The people from the magazines would take two or three shots of the band. They’d start to pack up. And then they’d sort of take me off into a corner by myself. After about the thirtieth time that a photographer asked me to take my shirt off, I started to get the picture.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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 was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Suicide
  • Machines
  • Detroit

• Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Fear
  • Respect
  • Band

• When I was a kid, I was into hardcore music. The scene in New York was tiny. Every person hanging out was in a band and played at the A7 Club. There was not much rehearsing or anything. Just doing.

  Dito Montiel
  • Music
  • Band

• 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

• One thing I've always been really proud of about our band is that we've done what we wanted to do, what we enjoy doing, and we've been really lucky that people have responded to it the way that they have. As long as we continue to really enjoy what we do and make decisions with integrity, I'm hoping people continue to respond to that.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Dumb
  • Brilliant
  • Pathetic

• Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Pretty
  • Rock
  • Squad

• My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.

  

  Ben Harper
  • World
  • Song
  • Period

• When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Band
  • Waiting
  • Sound

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