Band Quotes

• What I love about this job is it's literally a different day every single day, isn't it? One day you're a nurse, the next day you're in a band - you can just make it up. I'm just a big kid, and that's really what this job is - just playing dress-up every day.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Up
  • Different
  • Job

• My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • People
  • Success
  • Model

• 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

• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Success
  • Band

• Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Band

• I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

  

  Andra Day
  • School
  • Church
  • Singing

• 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

• We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

  

  Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Musicians

• I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Life
  • Paid
  • Walkmen

• In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Black
  • Chicago
  • Bigs

• Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Vision
  • Blue
  • Aspect

• 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.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Work
  • Band

• The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Singing
  • Firsts
  • Bigs

• There is a lot of energy between Lars and James, and sometimes that energy can erupt. I know that before I was in the band, Kirk was the guy who was often in the middle, and it was important at that time. And now I feel like sometimes I'm the guy that's in the middle between not just James and Lars, but even Kirk.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Guy
  • Energy
  • Band

• I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Giving
  • Artist
  • Vinyl

• When I was a younger man,Got lucky with a rock 'n' roll band,Struck gold in Hollywood,All the time I knew I wouldGet back to the country,Back where it all began.Get back to the country,Back in the barn again.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Country
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
  • World
  • Done
  • Wanted

• To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Music
  • Band

• The trouble with a lot of music in this country is the radio stations. Modern rock - it's SUCH a stale format. As far as I can work out, and as far as we can work out as a band, the music put on these stations... It's not for the people. It's to satisfy the advertisers. It's completely reactive as opposed to proactive.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Trouble
  • Radio Station

• Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • High
  • Simple
  • Band

• 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
  • Happy
  • Hate
  • Band

• 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
  • Great
  • Different
  • Together

• I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one at radio wants to play a band that's on a television show.

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Needs

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