Band Quotes
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As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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
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I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.
Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
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The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.
Gene Luen Yang
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It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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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.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
Butch Trucks
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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
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I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.
Adam Rich
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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?
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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
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Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
Joan Jett
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I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I started out playing in a punk band and ended up doing electro-pop. That was more an accident than a plan.
Alison Moyet
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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
Joan Jett
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We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.
Jenny Lewis
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When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
Agnetha Faltskog
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles Ives
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The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.
Neal Schon
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
Jennifer Egan