Bands Quotes

• 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

• Too many bands are scared to show emotions these days. They seem to think it’ll stop them being cool or something. We’ve never been cool. We’ve always been into emotionally charged music.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Music
  • Emotions
  • Bands

• With Dio, my first time to Japan, middle of summer, and it was rainy, hot, humid. We went on at 2 AM after Foreigner and Sting and there were a couple of Japanese bands before us. Mama's Boys went on at the crack of dawn. They were serving breakfast backstage.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Breakfast
  • Japan
  • Rainy

• 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

• Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Music
  • Imagine
  • Unison

• You want a showman, go see rock n roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll
  • Showman

• 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

• Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Bands
  • Hotel Rooms
  • Redecorate

• In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Business
  • Cases
  • Bands

• Bands don’t have MTV and there seems to be a lot less radio. There are no D.J.s anymore and whatever D.J.s are left are not given a choice. Now they just record their part at home and everything gets fed into a computer. I did an interview recently at a radio station, huge building, but when I got in there it was practically empty.

  

  Mike Score A Flock of Seagulls
  • Record
  • Interview
  • MTV

• 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

• The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Bands
  • Apply
  • Funk

• When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Rock
  • Waiting
  • Artists

• It's more about what was going on in town at that time, the places and the bands. Our band was in the center of all that. That was a special time.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Time
  • Places
  • Bands

• 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

• A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Band
  • Unique
  • Players

• I started working there first, then I convinced Matt to get a job there, We were in different bands at the time, but we brought our guitars to work and started playing.

  

  The Afters
  • Job
  • Bands
  • Guitars

• Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • School
  • Inspiration
  • Yo La Tengo

• Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Bands
  • Blamed
  • Cohorts

• I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

  

  Stan Getz
  • Played
  • Bands
  • Kinds

• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Bands

• Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Service

• Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure, stuff like that. That was a huge part of my teen-years and bands I still listen to right through to this day, but it had a huge bearing on me as a teen and it was some of my favourite music, and is still to this day some of my favourite music.

  

  Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Classics

• How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Records
  • Bands
  • Runaway

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