Band Quotes

• 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

• It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

  

  James Corden
  • People
  • Good
  • Band

• When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case."

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Song

• The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

  

  Jerry Only
  • Work
  • Money
  • Pretty

• Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Band
  • Trust
  • Rock

• The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Different
  • Band

• I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Eyes

• 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

• THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

  

  Ken Hensley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Cool

• When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Band

• I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

  

  Psy
  • World
  • Music
  • Guy

• Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Band
  • Bird
  • Thin

• Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

  

  Beau Bokan Blessthefall
  • Believe
  • Changed
  • Social

• We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • She
  • Mother
  • Teacher

• Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band
  • Beginning

• The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • Together
  • Band
  • Fighting

• It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Dumb
  • Brilliant
  • Pathetic

• 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

• With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Band
  • Rock

• 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
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Nice

• 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

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