Band Quotes

• I was only going to shoot you if he was in one band. And only if it had a name like Uncle Toejam's Acid Crematorium or something. But bluegrass is good, and hey, music is MY life too. Maybe I'll actually like the guy (assuming he's around long enough). Just don't write and tell me you're in the process of stirring up some baby Custard-Mustards.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Music
  • Shoot
  • Stirring

• When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Reality
  • Band
  • Build

• 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.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Capacity
  • Overwhelming
  • Dinosaurs

• If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Concerts

• 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.

  

  Andrew Wyatt
  • Live
  • Band
  • Hurt

• When I went to shows with my friends, it was all about the experience with my friends. If I met the band, it was cool. But it was more about talking about the memories of the show with my friends.

  

  Kellin Quinn
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Cool

• There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

  

  Stéphane Paut
  • Band
  • Albums
  • New Things

• 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?

  

  Bert Murray
  • Heart
  • Band
  • Songs

• I left the band because of a big misconception. I thought I could just take a “back seat” carrying on writing songs without performing!

  

  Jim McCarty Box of Frogs
  • Band
  • Performing
  • Left

• We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

  

  Alice Nutter
  • Band
  • Playing
  • Pop Music

• We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Proud
  • Rock
  • We

• The chemistry you get from playing live with a band is unique.

  

  Nic Offer
  • Band
  • Unique
  • Chemistry

• 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!

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Music
  • Band
  • Album

• I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.

  

  David First
  • Trying
  • Week
  • Composition

• Nat doing 'Fault' was the greatest thing for our band, and the only reason that our song got in it because Nat was screaming it in the movie. Now we can say that we have a song in 'Fault in Our Stars,' and we have a thousand fans who went to listen to our music because we performed at an event for 'Fault in Our Stars.'

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Southside Johnny
  • Band
  • Moments
  • Golden

• For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Giving
  • Feels
  • Break

• One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Changes
  • Involved

• We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Gay
  • Hearing

• I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Band
  • Enthusiasm
  • Garage

• We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

  

  James Bay
  • Band

• With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Great
  • Live
  • Band

• I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Wish

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