Band Quotes
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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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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.
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Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.
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I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.
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Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.
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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.
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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've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.
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I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere - the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing.
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I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.
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It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.
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The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.
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The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
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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.
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I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
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Every band runs its course.
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We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
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I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.
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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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My style is so tightly tied in with our songs that I don't think you could even ask me to quit Radiohead and play guitar for another band. I don't think I could do it. It would probably reveal me to be the bluffer that I believe I am. That's how it feels. I wouldn't have the confidence to do anything but this.
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We got Frank Rodriguez started in the band (playing keyboard). I was 14; it was during the Vietnam War, and it was exploding. We were left without two members, and it felt like everything was falling apart.
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For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.
