Band Quotes
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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.
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When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.
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Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
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It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.
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We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'
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Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
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We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.
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Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the Eagles, he's there to play guitar, and he's there to supply whatever is needed for that band, and that is what I feel with Metallica.
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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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One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world.
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Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
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Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
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With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.
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Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. It's always been about trying to get to know people. Albeit, it's a bit of a contradiction because you can't really get to know people when they're 10 feet away and there's a big mass of them.
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We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
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It's important to have a life outside the band.
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I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!
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How do we make a record that's true to the vibe of the band but still maintain the pace of moving forward and doing something fresh?
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The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.
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All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
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Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
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I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.
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Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.
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It's more relaxing after 10 years of thinking that we'd never get a record deal. And after doing as well as the first record did, we feel like we can make records whenever we want. That's the biggest change for us as a band.
