Band Quotes
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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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The Republican Party had a big day in yesterday's midterm elections and now controls the House and Senate. And don't ask me how this happened, but the Republican Party also gained control of three seats in our show's band.
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
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The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn't just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn't sell as many as 'Rumours.'
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Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
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My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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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.
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Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!
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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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Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
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Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.
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Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
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I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
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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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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.
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I've written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band's concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It's pretty unpredictable. I think it's always flowing, and sometimes I'm not listening. There's no formula for when I'm going to be able to be a good listener to myself.
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A wonderful side effect of being in a successful band is the places you go.
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When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.
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I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.
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I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
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I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.
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Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill, Where pleasure itself cannot please; Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still Affects to be quite at its ease; For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank, The freest is first of the band, Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,Is a man with his heart in his hand!
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There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not.
