Band Quotes
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I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
Eric Reed Boucher
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The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.
Chris Squire
Cinema
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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
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LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.
James Murphy
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So anyway, the show starts, and it's the Army band, and it's all those American 'ra ra' songs, you know that whole 'I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.' And they eat that shit up!
Kathy Griffin
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When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
Clarence Clemons
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Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.
Glenn Frey
The Eagles
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Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.
King Tuff
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My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla
Bajofondo
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Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I loved 'Rock Lobster.' I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. I thought that was really cool and exciting, that there was actually a band that had their own dance at that point.
Corin Tucker
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Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'
Brian Fallon
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This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
Charisma Carpenter
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
