Bands Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Bands
  • Hotel Rooms
  • Redecorate

• 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

• 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

• Lots of bands spend years and years before they hit it. For us it was overnight. It was two years - three at the most - from when the band started playing; and it wasn't like we worked so hard. It was a fun thing to do.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Fun
  • Years
  • Playing

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

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Business
  • Cases
  • Bands

• 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

• And every single dollar in these bands got a blue face Diamonds in the Rollie, they in HD like it’s Blu-Ray The way that I been ballin' should make the cover of 2K Show out for the summer I might pull up in a new Wraith

  

  Polo G
  • Single
  • Cover
  • Diamonds

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Stan Getz
  • Played
  • Bands
  • Kinds

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Independent
  • Internet
  • Studios

• 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

• 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

• I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.

  

  Bernie Marsden
  • Reason
  • Musicians
  • Treated

• I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Music
  • Selling
  • Commercials

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