Bands Quotes

• The bands we admired we're groups that made great album after great album. That's what groups like Led Zeppelin did. I'm certainly not comparing us to them in any way -- but they were an influence. You have to learn from your influences, and I think we have. We want to be doing this ten years from now -- maybe even 20 years from now. We know how important every album is. We're not just a bunch of kids anymore -- we're a rock and roll band that people expect some great things from.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Learn
  • Rock And Roll
  • Led Zeppelin

• There's no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn't be - bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.

  

  Alan Palomo
  • Real
  • Bands
  • Template

• We were noticed not because we dressed and acted so strangely, but because we didn't. All the other bands at that time were concerned with dressing as outrageously as possible and dying their hair ridiculous colors. We tended to look and act rather conservatively. People remember us, as well as our music.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Colors

• I think if there's a vacancy like that, hopefully it will make bands get more creative, and turn up, as they did in the old days, in empty warehouses and just impromptu showcases that are word-of-mouth and flyer-oriented. Hopefully it can be a good thing. But I'll miss that place.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Think
  • Creative
  • Vacancy

• There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Lifestyle
  • Punk

• I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Believe
  • Don't Believe
  • Solo Records

• My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Married
  • Singer
  • Bands

• 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

• I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.

  

  Nik Kershaw
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Bands

• I really like LIMP BIZKIT. I mean, I've said it for years - I don't know if anyone actually hears it - but I think LIMP BIZKIT are an awesome band. In terms of the rap-rock bands, or ANY bands out there, I think they really are truly among the best.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Bands
  • Hears
  • Limp Bizkit

• Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, 'Man, you've been in a lot of bands.' Yes, I have. I've also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, 'This is the one.' I think that's just human nature.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Reason
  • Bands
  • Human Nature

• One time a girl climbed around ten floors up the hotel balconies to Sav's room. All of a sudden, this pair of hands come up. Very dangerous. People do some strange things to meet bands.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Girl
  • Hotel
  • Pair Of Hands

• I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Years
  • Run
  • Boyzone

• I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Jobs
  • Musician
  • Bands

• There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Sound
  • Bands
  • All-girl

• I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Kid
  • Rock & Roll
  • Rock Concert

• What Nirvana's success means is that certain radio stations now have their ear more cocked to bands like us; they're more open to playing more stuff.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Success
  • Play
  • Radio

• I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Songs

• When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Battle
  • Ambitions
  • Culmination

• I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Fire
  • Bands
  • Welcomed

• In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Future
  • Theatre
  • Pop Show

• I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • School
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• The beauty of being in Boyzone - and maybe other bands are the same - is that as soon as you're back together again, it doesn't matter how long you've been apart. It feels like nothing's changed.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Together
  • Apart
  • Boyzone

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