Band Quotes
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First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.
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The chemistry you get from playing live with a band is unique.
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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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Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do
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The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
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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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Every band is different just because of the different combinations of people really are super unique to every band. The way you work together and the personalities that are being brought to the table. Our band is definitely the best combination of personalities I've worked with so far.
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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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Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
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I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.
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How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.
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Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.
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We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.
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One of the things we say in this band is if it's not fun, it's not worth doing.
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I don't like English bands. They're too structured.
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I used to produce this band, Dragons of Zynth. There's something about their live shows, which, to me, is ultimate. I mean, you feel like somebody could get hurt when you go see them live.
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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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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?'
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I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band.
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If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!
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Still searching for those golden moments. They’re out there and I will find them. Plus, I have a great band and we all get along very well. It makes it fun to be on stage. Besides, I don’t know how to do anything else.
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There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
