Band Quotes
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Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very heart of the Empire's military-industrial complex, the most secure facility in the Empire. You have a small band of experts with complementary skills who, together, are able to do these amazing things.
John Knoll
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We're always trying to do something better than the last record; to do something different and evolve as a band.
Johnny Christ
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'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind of capped off everything we set out to do when we started as a band, in terms of, like, wow, wouldn't it be great to make a record that a lot of people liked and listened to?
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naive and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."
Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
Charisma Carpenter
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Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
Alexei Sayle
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I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.
Drake Bell
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We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
Steve Porcaro
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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.
Kiefer Sutherland
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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
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Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.
William Wyman Sherwood Asia
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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.
Billy Duffy The Cult
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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
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I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
Aleksandar Hemon
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With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.
Chris Shiflett Foo Fighters
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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
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I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.
Rob Zombie
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Every band has an 'off' night once in a while - that's gonna happen.
John Corabi Mötley Crüe
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On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.
Benedict Samuel
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The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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.
Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
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It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!
Billy Joe Shaver