Band Quotes
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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
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I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.
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It's important to have a life outside the band.
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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
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The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.
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I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
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If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
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I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
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Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.
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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.
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I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
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I always find entertainment in the support band.
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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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When I think of nu-metal, I think of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and even Chevelle - those types of bands.
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Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.
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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.
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I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
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I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'
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I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.
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When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
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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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We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not about egotism, greed, or competition. This means that we prefer to work with people and bands that have a similar sort of mentality and attitude.
