Band Quotes

• 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.

  

  Kip Winger
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Family
  • Band

• Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Time
  • Music
  • Experience

• I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Music
  • Love
  • Wanted

• I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Good
  • Great
  • Friends

• The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Taken
  • Tears
  • Bored

• I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Lyrics
  • Self
  • Down And

• All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Identity
  • Danger
  • Losing

• The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Music
  • History
  • Band

• We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Important
  • Community
  • Define

• At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music
  • Job
  • Listening

• 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
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Band

• I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book.

  

  Megan McCafferty
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Record
  • Writers
  • Terrified

• I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

  

  Kip Winger
  • Music
  • Band

• I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.

  

  Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
  • People
  • Player
  • Ability

• I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

  

  Chris Daughtry
  • American
  • Together
  • Band

• I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • Bass
  • Distortion

• When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Free
  • Band

• The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Road
  • Rock N Roll

• Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Stupid
  • Drummer
  • Play Music

• You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Game
  • Team
  • Band

• I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Band
  • Hearing
  • Don't Think

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