Band Quotes

• With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Way
  • Voice
  • Ella

• It's a big deal when you play in a rock band and you conquer Japan. You know, it's a big deal.

  

  Johnny Colt The Black Crowes
  • Band
  • Rock

• Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

  

  King Tuff
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • American
  • Singing
  • German

• I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • City
  • Band
  • Angry

• 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

• 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.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Song
  • Band

• A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• His mother told him, 'Someday you will be a man, And you will be the leader of a big old band. Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun go down. Maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'.'

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Music
  • Mother

• Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Children
  • Feels
  • Stars

• I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Play
  • Band

• 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

• Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • People
  • Degree
  • Arrogance

• 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

• Having really good ideas comes from being able to listen to everybody else and see what their ideas are, because they're coming from a completely different place. That's always been important. It's part of being in a band.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

  

  Jerry Only
  • People
  • Job
  • Band

• I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Music
  • Band

• Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Live
  • England

• Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Career

• If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • Different
  • Hair
  • Attitude

• 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
  • People
  • Band
  • Rock

• You know, I do feel as though it’s more of a follow-up. I mean, we recorded this record live and in the fashion that I really wanted to do that first Bash & Pop record, although it didn’t quite turn out as live a record as we planned. The first one, anyway. So this one actually has more of a live rock ‘n’ roll band feel to it. And I really kinda wanted to make a record where I wasn’t wearing too many hats at once and I could actually, you know, capture some of the essence of a rock band playing live together in the studio.

  

  Tommy Stinson The Replacements
  • Record
  • Studio
  • Planned

• Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Time
  • Future
  • Sky

• To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Band

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