Band Quotes

• It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Life
  • Music
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Name
  • Alabama

• From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Beginning

• It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Band
  • Lifestyle
  • Bigger

• The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • People
  • Know
  • Camera

• Spirituality amounts to love with me. I consider it the same as love. And my band members are full of love.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Band

• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Think

• I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Team

• I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Art
  • Band

• I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Time
  • Mind
  • School

• The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Future
  • Band
  • Favorite

• Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • Band

• One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Time
  • Music
  • Home

• We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Up
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Night
  • Band

• That's when I'm at my rawest. When I'm performing with the band. It's just like the groove is going, whether we're fast or slow, I can just transport myself.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Band

• You've got to think, when we started our band, none of us had a computer until we were 21.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Think
  • Band
  • Computer

• I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Peace
  • Band

• We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Brandon Thomas
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Rock

• I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Children
  • Home
  • Husband

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