Band Quotes

• Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band

• Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Great
  • Different
  • Band

• I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Band
  • Rock And Roll
  • Guitarist

• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Way
  • Creative Person
  • Self-Indulgent

• I have loved music since I was a baby and had the chance to begin early. At 14 I had my first band, a quartet, and then many others until I was 19 playing Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mamas & The Papas, Crosby, Stills... today we'd call them "cover bands

  

  Fabio Frizzi
  • Music
  • Today
  • Chance

• If I start to go around and look for stuff that's being written about me or about the band, chances are I'm not going to find what I'm looking for or what I'd want to be hearing. If I go out and look for it and it's out there, I'm really going to notice when it's not. And I'd hate to think that that would impact any decisions I'm making.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Decision

• I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Developed
  • Writing Songs
  • Theocracy

• What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Care

• The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

  

  Sid Vicious Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Band
  • Hats
  • Embarrassment

• I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Band
  • Girls
  • Backstage

• Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

  

  John Otto Limp Bizkit
  • Band
  • Sacrifice

• I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Different
  • Band

• It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Done

• I'm in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain't ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There's not enough time to sleep in my world.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Band

• It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

  

  Luke Treadaway
  • Live
  • Band
  • Fake

• I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • Band
  • Fire

• I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.

  

  Danielle Dax
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• Like even the band before Milky Chance, we always wrote in English, but it’s awesome and natural in the way that we listen to a lot of English music always more than German definitely. And it’s just kind of you do what you listen to.

  

  Philipp Dausch Milky Chance
  • English
  • Listen
  • Wrote

• I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Band
  • Singers

• When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • I Hope
  • Onstage

• I never thought for one second I'd be able to play with a real band. When I was in high school, I went through a lot of bad treatment and was called a lot of names by boys because I wanted to play. Sly was different.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Different
  • Real
  • School

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