Band Quotes
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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
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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.
Kristian Bush
Sugarland
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If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.
Johnny Christ
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To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.
Adam Richman
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We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.
Ad-Rock
The Beastie Boys
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Bass guitar is the engine of the band.
Suzi Quatro
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I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
Harry Dean Stanton
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After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
Tina Turner
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So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
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I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?
Jimmy Kimmel
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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.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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And raw in fields the rude militia swarms,Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense,In peace a charge, in war a weak defence;Stout once a month they march, a blustering band,And ever but in times of need at hand.
John Dryden
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
Alia Shawkat
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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
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Player for player, there’s
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.
Andy Gilbert
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We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.
Aaron Dessner
The National
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Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!
Tré Cool
Green Day
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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.
Kip Winger
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By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
Tommy Shaw
Styx
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If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I'm very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that.
John Darnielle
