Band Quotes
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When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.
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The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."
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I was at that age…I was interested in girls so (being in a band) made it better!
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My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
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This was our first, recorded in 1979 and released in 1980. Star struck teens at Ringo Starr's home recording studio in the South of England. Motorbikes in the swimming pool, Vodka bottles for daze. The most fun any band ever had doing any record in any studio ... which is why we never listen to it anymore.
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It could've been made thirty years ago or forty-five years ago actually, or it could've been made last week. And, I think the level of our craft was such that we're appreciated, at leased by fans if not critics. Critics have never appreciated our band.
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I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.
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I don't like English bands. They're too structured.
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I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
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I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.
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The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
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I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.
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The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
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I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.
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Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.
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I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.
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Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks
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Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
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When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a recollection of hearing electric guitar in Lionel Hampton's big band in the 1940s and date it to that decade, you'd still be off - by more than 30 years.
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Hopefully we can be a band who has a career like U2 or Aerosmith or somebody like that but that's very far and few between. We're happy to be where we are at now, so it's a gift, you gotta just keep pushing forward. For all of us it's very easy to be out here and do what we do, easy in the sense that it's a gift but it can be difficult at times.
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It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'
