Band Quotes
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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.
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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
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We're a working-people's band, and we love America and what she stands for. Also, we love doing shows, whether it's a huge amphitheater or a corn dog fest. We don't care.
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I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
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I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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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.
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The main thing is that this band keeps going.
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I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.
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I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.
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I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
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You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
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Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.
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I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.
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The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.
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We worked as a team... I was one of the band.
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I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.
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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.
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The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.
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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.
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I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
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Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.
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As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.
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All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
