Band Quotes
-
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
-
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
-
I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands previously, I guess I mainly deferred to them a lot in terms of who was singing the bulk of the songs.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
-
But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.
Nick Mason
Pink Floyd
-
When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.
Yusaku Maezawa
-
Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.
Bill Willingham
-
I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
-
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
James Iha
The Smashing Pumpkins
-
There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
Douglas Glenn Colvin
Ramones
-
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
-
The empty highway behind looked like a stretching rubber band.
Edward Anderson
-
As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
