Bands Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I'm sure a lot of bands are like, 'I need my own space.' But we don't. I want to be with these guys forever.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Space
  • Bands
  • Tour

• 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

• 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

• 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

• All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Bands
  • Punk
  • Selling Out

• There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Song
  • Disrespect
  • Dishonest

• We're a little bit competitive and we want to make sure we're on the top. We're all working for the same goal as all these bands, we want to come out on top and I think we have accomplished that in a lot of ways. You want to keep improving yourselves and getting better at what you do.

  

  Barry Kerch
  • Goal
  • Bands
  • Improving

• 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

• Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think the days of those bands going out and selling ten or twelve, fifteen million records like they used to do back in the day, it's not happening.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Records
  • Bands
  • Selling

• I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Bands
  • Scotland
  • Guitars

• Obviously, for Geffen, if it wasn't for us, it's quite possible that bands like Nirvana or Beck would not be on the label.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Label
  • Geffen
  • Without Us

• 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

• My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Education
  • Interviews
  • Composer

• The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

  

  Christian McBride
  • New York
  • Played
  • Significant

• I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Weird
  • Bands
  • Psychotic

• We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was in a different place than all of those other bands that we were being labeled that

  

  Dustin Kensrue
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Bands

• The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • True
  • Bands
  • Fads

• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Money
  • Rules
  • Bands

• In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

  

  Richard Prince
  • Myself
  • Whole
  • Bands

• Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Bands
  • Relevant

• I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.

  

  Ben Watt
  • Music
  • Audience
  • Move

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