Band Quotes
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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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I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.
Rivers Cuomo Weezer
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The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.
Lindsay Duncan
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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
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
Charles Lapworth
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I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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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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A wonderful side effect of being in a successful band is the places you go.
Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs
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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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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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We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.
Brian Fallon
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The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
Eric Reed Boucher
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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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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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I think the most amazing thing is the sense of family and the inclusive nature of the band; it's like a brotherhood. And it was like that right from Day One.
Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
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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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Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.
Beau Bokan Blessthefall
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One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
Pink
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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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We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.
Scotty Moore
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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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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