Band Quotes

• We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Up
  • Band

• Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • Band

• Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Children
  • Home
  • Husband

• Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Up
  • Age
  • Day

• I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Work
  • Band

• You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Together
  • Attention
  • Better

• We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Words
  • Band
  • Like

• Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Music
  • Different
  • Experience

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

  

  Jeff Mangum
  • Band
  • Football

• Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Decision
  • Unique
  • Engineering

• I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Band
  • Gossip

• I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Band
  • Said
  • Going

• How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Heard
  • '80s
  • Replacements

• My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Band
  • Approach

• If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out.

  

  Chris Frantz Talking Heads
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Know
  • Dad

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