Band Quotes

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Learning

• If I wasn't in the band I reckon I'd be a virgin.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Band
  • Virgin
  • Reckon

• 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
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Annoying

• The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Band

• But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Band

• I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • School
  • High
  • Rock

• 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.
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Talented

• Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. It's always been about trying to get to know people. Albeit, it's a bit of a contradiction because you can't really get to know people when they're 10 feet away and there's a big mass of them.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Safe
  • Way Of Being

• We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Band
  • Wanted
  • Yaers

• There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Friends
  • Cool
  • Fire

• 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
  • Band
  • Labels
  • Contracts

• I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • Band
  • Fire

• I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.'

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Done
  • American
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• The reason we ended up breaking up was because of managers, not because the band wanted to break up. The reason all the bad things came about – and they did, and they do raise their head in the Badfinger story – all of that came from the management side of it, not from inside the band.

  

  Joseph Charles "Joey" Molland Badfinger
  • Band
  • Management
  • Breaking up

• More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Eye

• I once took a date whitewater rafting and brought my entire band/crew along.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Band

• The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Band

• You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Band
  • I Think
  • Therapy

• In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

  

  Charles Ives
  • Up
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Band
  • Hearing
  • Don't Think

• When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • I Hope
  • Onstage

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