Band Quotes
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Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him.
Barack Obama
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This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.
Mikey Way
My Chemical Romance
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.
Beau Bokan
Blessthefall
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A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
Tommy Bolin
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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.
Steven Tyler
Aerosmith
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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
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My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
Anat Cohen
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I just wanted to be happy in what I did and I wasn’t for a while and I think everyone finds that thing eventually whether it’s way down the road or.. in some people happens earlier in life and it sounds really weird and it sounds like one of those “oh” moments,when I got to play in this band and did that it’s kinda when I…that time I was happy with what I was doing
Bob Bryar
My Chemical Romance
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Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.
Ariel Pink
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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
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I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.
Luke Bryan
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
John Spratt
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Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.
Jay Sean
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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
