Band Quotes
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A band can define their own success.
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The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
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There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.
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One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
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I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.
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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.
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I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
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When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
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The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
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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.
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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.
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I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
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Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
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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.
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That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.
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I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
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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.
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I play in a band called 'Moi non plus' with some friends.
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The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
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What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
