Band Quotes

• There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

  

  Jerry Only
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Band

• There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Up
  • Band

• We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Boy
  • Boys

• When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Song
  • Accommodate

• We tried out Question Mark and thought he was a really good singer. He had good showmanship, so we brought him in the band.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Singer
  • Tried
  • Showmanship

• Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

  

  Eyedea
  • Band
  • Stuff
  • Catch

• I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever - on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Success

• Through the music and words we, as the band The ex, express our thoughts and opinions and ideas. It is not always totally necessary for our audience to clearly hear and understand every line I sing. The power and impact, the positive energy of the music are as much part of the whole thing as the words. We are not trying to convert people, but we believe in our music and like to play it in front of other people, hoping that we can get them as excited as we are about our music.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • Music
  • Words
  • Ideas

• Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Different
  • Business
  • Band

• In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Fun
  • Band

• Sugarland was a band we started to try to make things better. It was in the aftermath of 9-11; it was in the aftermath of my mother dying... there was a lot of weird stuff that had gone on that made you want to start something good.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Weird

• We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

  

  Scotty Moore
  • Band
  • Ass
  • Directed

• When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Different
  • Family
  • Together

• 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
  • Kids
  • Differences
  • Gone

• People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

  

  James Young Styx
  • People
  • Band
  • Rock

• Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

  

  Win Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Rock
  • Weird

• I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Kids

• We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Mainstream
  • Anymore
  • Underground

• I started off as a bar band. We played ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Waylon Jennings, the Rolling Stones - everything and anything people wanted to hear. You're not really selling yourself back then; you're selling beer.

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • People
  • Band
  • Beer

• I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Together
  • Company
  • Records

• I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Up
  • Country
  • Couple

• You know, I am still doing solo stuff and will continue always as well as other people in the band. We know that everybody has their own thing so we like to leave that door for everyone.

  

  Stephen Pearcy Ratt
  • Band
  • Continue
  • Solo

• When I think of nu-metal, I think of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and even Chevelle - those types of bands.

  

  Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
  • Thinking
  • Type
  • Metals

• When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.

  

  Eric Carmen
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Growing Up

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