Band Quotes
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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’s so awesome to think that people all over the world are listening to your music. People are just getting into Wildstreet, and they find that we’ve been a band for 13 years. It’s just really cool.
Eric Jayk
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When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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A wonderful side effect of being in a successful band is the places you go.
Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs
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We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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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.
Jens Lekman
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When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
Leon Russell
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The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.
Lyle Lovett
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You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.
Anton Newcombe
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.
James Hetfield Metallica
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It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.
James Corden
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The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.
Lisa Loeb
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I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,
Chris Martin Coldplay
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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
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Every band works differently. What we found is that the two of us have very much got a direction that’s similar. We like art. We live and work in a place that’s full of artists, and it has a big influence on us.
Jules De Martino The Ting Tings
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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.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
Tina Turner
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I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"
Babatunde Adebimpe
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We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.
Blase J. Cupich
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I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
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I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.
Neal Schon
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I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.
Michael Sweet Boston