Band Quotes
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It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."
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I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.
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The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.
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The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.
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When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
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I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.
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There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
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It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
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Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
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This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.
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So anyway, the show starts, and it's the Army band, and it's all those American 'ra ra' songs, you know that whole 'I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.' And they eat that shit up!
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Band I listen to most: The Ramones.
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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.
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Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
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I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.
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I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.
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I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.
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The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.
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A band like the Cult was never, ever destined to be super huge, because it's just never going to be for everybody. But I think the Cult is multifaceted, and that gives us a longevity.
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The main thing is that this band keeps going.
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As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!
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We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.
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When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.'
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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
