Band Quotes
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Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.
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The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.
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When I get back with band, the lights, and the whole production, that's me with the full artillery. A quick radio performance keeps me sharp for the big show.
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Basically, Ian went through the process of doing the Doors, and through singing somebody else's stuff and detaching himself from being at the center of the band, I think he just gained some perspective on the fact that the Cult wasn't such a terrible place to be.
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To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.
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We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.
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Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.
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There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.
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To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
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I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.
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Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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First date, it's always fun to go somewhere or do something, like go see a band... not make it too formal.
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All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.
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I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one at radio wants to play a band that's on a television show.
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We can do many different things as a band. But that doesn't mean we should do that. If we did all we're capable of, it doesn't necessarily mean we'd be writing better songs. None of us are huge fans of bands that seem to go, 'OK, I'm gonna sing for no reason and then scream for no reason just because I can.'
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I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.
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I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.
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What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
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One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.
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I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.
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I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
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For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.
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The empty highway behind looked like a stretching rubber band.
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When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.
