Bands Quotes

• I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

  

  Michael Kelly
  • Politics
  • Stuff
  • Started

• 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

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

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Bands
  • Scotland
  • Guitars

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Records
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll

• 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

• 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

• When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Song
  • Listening
  • Dropping

• My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Bands
  • Instrument
  • Playing Guitar

• 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

• 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

• We were all 16 and 17. When you're that age, you're just daydreaming all day. We had bands we loved - Green Day, Weezer, a lot of bands in the '90s - and we just wanted to have fun. We didn't overthink it too much.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Fun
  • Bands
  • Daydreaming

• 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

• 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

• There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Ride
  • Ship
  • Creative People

• When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Think

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