Band Quotes

• Somebody at the record company suggested the idea, of recording an orchestral album of our older songs. A person from August Day asked if we would be interested. They contacted everyone from the band. We were actually never in the same studio together. It was recorded in different studios everywhere.

  

  Mike Score A Flock of Seagulls
  • Album
  • Studio
  • Recording

• 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

• Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

  

  Brandon Thomas
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Rock

• That's when I'm at my rawest. When I'm performing with the band. It's just like the groove is going, whether we're fast or slow, I can just transport myself.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Band

• I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Job
  • Star

• I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Guy

• The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Live
  • Done
  • Band

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Life
  • Up
  • Marriage

• 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 first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.

  

  Darren Robinson
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Teacher

• 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

• You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.

  

  Paul Charles Caravello Kiss
  • Great
  • Important
  • Real

• Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Band

• My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

  

  Charlie Worsham
  • House
  • Animal
  • Sunrise

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • New
  • Windows

• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Listen

• I am in a band that was born on the Internet.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band

• I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson's.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Band

• The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Future
  • Band
  • Favorite

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• 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

• 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

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