Band Quotes
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The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
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I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.
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I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
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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.
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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
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Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.
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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.
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Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
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I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
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Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!
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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.
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Being in this band the Spice Girls is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.
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My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.
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If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.
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Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!
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In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.
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With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.
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There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band.
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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?
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It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
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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.
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My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
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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.
