Bands Quotes

• People who were in their 20s back in the '80s have told us that we remind them of their favorite bands from when they were younger, ... I understand them. When I was a kid I loved those bands, too. We have that in common with the people who come out and see us.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Bands
  • Remind

• Tame Impala and I love the psychedelia. To me, it sounds like Blind Faith and old bands from back in the freak days. It just hit a nerve to me. I was just really feeling that sound.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Freak
  • Psychedelis
  • Blind Faith

• I can't think of many bands that can do that for five years without egos blowing up, but it's still working. We went about a year without seeing them (while touring with Cheap Trick), and we really missed them.

  

  Neal Doughty REO Speedwagon
  • Bands
  • Missed
  • Egos

• The Sex Pistols came through Atlanta, and I got to go see them. That was historic. It blew me away; it was so much fun. I bought 45s of bands you don't hear about anymore.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Bands
  • Historic
  • Atlanta

• I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Changed
  • Members
  • Suppose

• I guess it’s easy to label it as that. Some bands do start side projects while they know it’s not going to go any further. But this is something we’re looking at on long term.

  

  Nathan Connolly Snow Patrol
  • Projects
  • Bands
  • Label

• If you listen to bands like Public Enemy or A Tribe Called Quest, you can hear in the samples that the snare would sometimes go very dull - like on one snare. So, to replicate that, we’d record a drum break and Geoff would get it on vinyl, then he’d chuck it on the floor and kick it around, so it was a bit crackly, get it on his deck and just scratch on the snare drum bit to make it go dull. That’s the sort of attention to detail that made the record.

  

  Adrian Utley Portishead
  • Record
  • Drum
  • Vinyl

• Most bands are scared of ridicule - we embrace it.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Scared
  • Embrace
  • Bands

• We never went out and played shows before we got signed because the music scene in Las Vegas is so bad. There's not a lot going on. In our practice space, there were something like 30 bands, and every day we'd walk into that room and hear the exact same death-metal bands. So it kind of influenced us to be different. And to get out of Las Vegas.

  

  Spencer Smith Panic! at the Disco
  • Music
  • Played
  • Las Vegas

• If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Stupid

• You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Show
  • Bands
  • Gig

• Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Death
  • Projects
  • Bands

• We traveled with a lot of these bands and got to know them personally. It's a real good comradery between musicians…traveling together, you can relate to each other.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Musicians
  • Bands
  • Traveled

• I hear a lot of bands complain about touring, and it does get to be a bit emotionally draining. But you have to put it into context: It's just a bunch of shows.

  

  Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World
  • Shows
  • Bands
  • Draining

• Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Stage
  • Bands
  • Self-Deprecating

• I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • People
  • Music
  • I Love

• And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Hurricane
  • Testosterone
  • Male-dominated

• This really was the start of a period where me, Barney and Steve would all be meeting bands and getting into producing them. Barney did Section 25, Happy Mondays. Steve and Gillian produced Thick Pigeon (who, incidentally, were Stanton Miranda, Michael Shamberg’s girlfriend, and Carter Burwell, who later made his name scoring films for the Coen Brothers).

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Girlfriend
  • Bands
  • Producing

• Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.'

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Press
  • Ear
  • Catches

• I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • I Love
  • Bands
  • The Beatles

• We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Rock
  • Start
  • Rock N Roll

• My dad got me into heavy music. He was a big rock fan when I was younger, and he was always looking for something heavier – less so than me, he stopped at Metallica or something of that nature. He helped me discover Motörhead which was the band for me when I was young; I liked other bands but they were out there on their own.

  

  Barney Greenway Benediction
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Metallica

• KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Bands
  • Jealous
  • Borders

• I always wanted to be in bands.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Wanted
  • To Be
  • Bands

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