Band Quotes
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We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.
James Owen Sullivan
Avenged Sevenfold
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But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.
James Iha
The Smashing Pumpkins
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We use a neck training machine where you can strengthen the muscles, going front to back, side to side. You can also connect a big resistance band to a wall or something and do the exercise like that.
Valtteri Bottas
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Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.
Phil Anselmo
Pantera
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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
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I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?
Colin Greenwood
Radiohead
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Even though there's only two guys in the band, when both of us are on the same page about something, you can't really change our minds.
Tyler Joseph
Twenty One Pilots
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Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
Chris Metzler
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No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.
Peter Daniell Doherty
Babyshambles
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You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that's not really my approach.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I went right out, got a bass and learned how to play it. I stayed inside the whole time during Christmas break until I could come out and join the band.
Tyson Jay Ritter
The All-American Rejects
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If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
Jay Sean
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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
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I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them for helping me make my own way in my own career.
Eric Burdon
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I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.
Douglas Carter Beane