Band Quotes
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Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.
Lydia Lunch
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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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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.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.
Art Alexakis
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A lot of times, people ask us about being a country band, and we say, 'Well, we're not really a country band.' And we're not knocking country, because we like it, but we don't want to be limited.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown 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.
Brian Tyree Henry
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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.
Frankie Cosmos
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If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.
Ashton Kutcher
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To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.
Pete Townshend The Who
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It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum
Steve Albini Big Black
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
Pete Townshend The Who
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A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
Tommy Bolin
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I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C. A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.
Adam Richman
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I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.
Kiernan Shipka
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The way I see it is that we've got three very effective frontmen in the group and I think that's enough for any band. If you had five frontmen, they'd start bumping into each other, not just physically, but also mentally in terms of writing and everything.
Ian Hill Judas Priest
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It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.
Chris Daughtry
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There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band.
Bernard Fanning
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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