Band Quotes
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Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.
Adam Schlesinger
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I think me and Kristen Bell are going to start a band. It's called Kung-Fu Professor.
Clark Duke
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My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.
Analeigh Tipton
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My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.
Steve Jones
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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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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
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Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
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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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The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.
Lisa Loeb
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Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.
Neal Schon
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Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,
Chris Martin Coldplay
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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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When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.
Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses
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The main thing is that this band keeps going.
Jerry Only
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The coolest thing for me to do was listen to Pearl Jam's 'Ten,' Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' or Soundgarden and play along to it and think about how awesome it would be to be in one of those bands and be up on stage. When I'd close my eyes at 13 and dream of being in Pearl Jam or one of those bands, it was exactly like how it is now with the band I'm in.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
Patti Smith
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I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.
Quentin Tarantino
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When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
Lindsey Buckingham
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College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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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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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