Bands Quotes

• Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.

  

  Dennis Cooper
  • Kids
  • Creativity
  • Interests

• 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

• Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Play
  • Bands
  • Performer

• 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

• I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Bands
  • Digging
  • U2

• When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and bands like that that are super young and sound extremely derivative of bands that were out at that current moment. As they sounded like 'Nirvana in pajamas' as we called them, we sounded like Bon Jovi and Skid Row and Motley Crue, because we were only influenced by what was out at the time because we were so young...

  

  Butch Walker
  • Nirvana
  • Bon Jovi
  • Motley Crue

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

  

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Fan
  • To Be
  • Comfort Zone

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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'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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It's interesting, there are a lot of similarities with being in the music business or being in a band, where a lot of it is business work you've gotta do, like emails. It's weird, I don't feel like I'm in charge.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Work
  • Business
  • Emails

• 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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