Band Quotes
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I have a great band and a great crew and once you’ve done this for as long as I have every time you go on tour you have this template to work with where you have a thousand things to do to get out on the road.
Jeff Waters
Annihilator
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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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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.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.
Carl Gardner
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I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.
Colin Marston
Behold... The Arctopus
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With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.
Colin Greenwood
Radiohead
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Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
J Balvin
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CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with
someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
Tom DeLonge
Blink-182
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Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
Buddy Rich
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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
Steve Albini
Big Black
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I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
John Lurie
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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.
Bobby Balderrama
Question Mark & the Mysterians
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And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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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
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There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.
Steve Porcaro
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I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.
Meg White
The White Stripes
