Band Quotes

• Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Today
  • Yeah
  • Aerosmith

• 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.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Band
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Play Guitar

• People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

  

  Phillip Noyce
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Band
  • Wanted
  • Yaers

• You know, I do feel as though it’s more of a follow-up. I mean, we recorded this record live and in the fashion that I really wanted to do that first Bash & Pop record, although it didn’t quite turn out as live a record as we planned. The first one, anyway. So this one actually has more of a live rock ‘n’ roll band feel to it. And I really kinda wanted to make a record where I wasn’t wearing too many hats at once and I could actually, you know, capture some of the essence of a rock band playing live together in the studio.

  

  Tommy Stinson The Replacements
  • Record
  • Studio
  • Planned

• I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

  

  Diplo
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Band

• I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

  

  Evan Ingersoll
  • People
  • Band

• It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Parents
  • Imagine
  • Adult

• The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

  

  Ken Hensley
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Career

• Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Vegas

• Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• A lot of times, people ask us about being a country band, and we say, 'Well, we're not really a country band.' And we're not knocking country, because we like it, but we don't want to be limited.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Country
  • Band

• 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
  • Different
  • Band

• 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
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• Josh is the guy in the band who's just so friendly and super, wanting to walk up to you and say, 'Hey, I'm Josh. I drum in this band, and I'm a big fan of you, and I really appreciate what you do.' Josh has all these great friends in the industry now.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Fear
  • Band
  • Flying

• 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?

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Nice

• If I start to go around and look for stuff that's being written about me or about the band, chances are I'm not going to find what I'm looking for or what I'd want to be hearing. If I go out and look for it and it's out there, I'm really going to notice when it's not. And I'd hate to think that that would impact any decisions I'm making.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Decision

• 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.

  

  Danny Barker
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Flats

• Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

  

  Eyedea
  • Band
  • Stuff
  • Catch

• All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Classic

• 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

• I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Up
  • Style
  • Beach

• There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Band
  • Trust
  • Beauty

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