Band Quotes
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I started playing in a band when I was eleven years old. We did a three piece, and we started playing instrumentals.
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If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.
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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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I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.
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We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.
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We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.
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We want to go national. Were interested in exposing the band as much as possible.
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I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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When we were starting out as a band, I was addicted to college radio.
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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.
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Every band has an 'off' night once in a while - that's gonna happen.
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I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.
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I don't have to try and be a comedian to fit in the band. It's such a comfortable vibe. Had I been born in Sheffield, I probably would have been in the original lineup.
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When I played out it was just me and the guitar but now it’s just messing with the full band for the longest time, kind of putting the show together and trying to make a live show that is worth people coming to and spending their money on.
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I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.
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What I love about this job is it's literally a different day every single day, isn't it? One day you're a nurse, the next day you're in a band - you can just make it up. I'm just a big kid, and that's really what this job is - just playing dress-up every day.
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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.
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I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.
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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.
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The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.
