Band Quotes
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When you go out for the night with your buddies, it feels like you're in a band, and I think everybody can relate to that.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson's.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.
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We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.
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Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.
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We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
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If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.
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Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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I remember the first single I ever bought. I think it was a terrible song called 'D.I.S.C.O.' by a band called Ottawan. It's a really fearless disco track from the '70s or early '80s.
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Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death.
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I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
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I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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I joined my family's band, Clannad , as a teenager in 1980 to sing harmonies and play keyboards, but it wasn't musically challenging for me; I felt like an outsider. ... My split from Clannad two years later caused a conflict of loyalty for a time, because I went off with their manager Nicky Ryan, who had asked me to join Clannad in the first place.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
