Band Quotes
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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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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
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I'm always interested in new things. I don't go seeking out every band I can hear because there are too many, especially now with the Internet. There's no way you can collect everything.
Chris Reifert Autopsy
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We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
Dustin Hoffman
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I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
Lenny Kravitz
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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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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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Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
Mel Torme
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned.
Chris Stein Blondie
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When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.
Tad Kubler
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When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'
Brian Fallon
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In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
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It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.
Amy Argetsinger
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I love being in a band.
Jewel Kilcher
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I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.
Ed Kowalczyk
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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 am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.
Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
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I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.
Jake Busey
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I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.
Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
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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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When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
Babatunde Adebimpe