Band Quotes

• 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
  • People
  • Live
  • England

• 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

• I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Band
  • Factories
  • Matched

• I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones.

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Remember
  • Week
  • Whisky

• I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • May
  • Persons

• I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Up
  • Country
  • Couple

• I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dance

• The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.

  

  Zacky Vengeance
  • Up
  • Band
  • Shoes

• My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.

  

  Andra Day
  • Band

• It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

  

  Chris Daughtry
  • Good
  • Music
  • May

• Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Control
  • Lost
  • Popular

• 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

• Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison
  • Music
  • Band

• I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Kids

• We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Mainstream
  • Anymore
  • Underground

• The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • Together
  • Band
  • Fighting

• Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Music
  • Single
  • Band

• 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

• Through the music and words we, as the band The ex, express our thoughts and opinions and ideas. It is not always totally necessary for our audience to clearly hear and understand every line I sing. The power and impact, the positive energy of the music are as much part of the whole thing as the words. We are not trying to convert people, but we believe in our music and like to play it in front of other people, hoping that we can get them as excited as we are about our music.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • Music
  • Words
  • Ideas

• I grew up on a council estate in Luton, and as a child, I was very much into the brass-band tradition. I was basically a Salvation Army boy. My English granddad bought me a cornet when I was five years old.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • Up
  • English
  • Boy

• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • America
  • Player
  • Listening

• I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Awesome

• A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Job

• Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Band
  • Grunge

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