Band Quotes

• I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.

  

  Geoff Downes Yes
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• 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

• I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Different
  • Free

• 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
  • Training
  • Exercise
  • Wall

• I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

  

  Max Weinberg
  • Nice
  • Crazy
  • Rock

• Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Together

• The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

  

  Neal Schon
  • Band
  • Journey
  • Monster

• We want to go national. Were interested in exposing the band as much as possible.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Band

• We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Friends
  • Band

• We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Art
  • Band

• My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

  

  Keith Morris Black Flag
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Four

• I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • World
  • Great
  • Songs

• Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Work
  • Song
  • Stage

• Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

  

  Neal McDonough
  • Together
  • Band

• I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Problem
  • Distracting
  • Big band

• I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Experience
  • Band
  • Rock Out

• I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.

  

  Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
  • Thinking
  • Needs
  • Convinced

• 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

• Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • People
  • Band
  • Musically

• You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work
  • Political
  • Band

• The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Couple

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