Bands Quotes

• Most bands release a live album when they become old and fat. We wanted to be different.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Album
  • Bands
  • Release

• So I think it’s always going to be this on-and-off kind of thing and that’s the way bands work. You need something else so it doesn’t start to chew on itself.

  

  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
  • Work
  • Bands
  • Chew

• People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Time
  • Rest

• I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.

  

  Warren DeMartini
  • Thinking
  • Hair
  • Bands

• We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Dream
  • Imagination
  • Escape

• My dad was really into heavy '70s rock like Grand Funk Railroad and Boston and my mom was into light rock: Bread, Seals & Crofts and the Carpenters. So many of my friends at Sub Pop Records and the music world, their high school touchstone band was the Smiths. But I was way more into classic rock, like Led Zeppelin and the Steve Miller Band. I was more into the redneck Midwest music bands more than anything else.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Rock
  • Records
  • My Friends

• Not a lot of bands get to go out on their own terms.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Own
  • Bands
  • Terms

• We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Medicine
  • Bands
  • Anett Brothers

• They all migrated to the front door. Dad and Dale carried the larger bags. Seth held a smaller duffel bag and a cereal box. The cereal box was his emergency kit. It was full of odds and ends he thought would come in handy for an adventure—rubber bands, a compass, granola bars, coins, a squirt gun, a magnifying glass, plastic handcuffs, string, a whistle.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Adventure
  • Bands
  • Emergency

• Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Friendship
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll

• I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • People
  • Scene
  • Art stuff

• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Money
  • Rules
  • Bands

• There's this wave of new pop-punk bands that has come out that's bigger than ever. I'm really glad that we got to be a part of helping push that forward, if we did at all. I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Bands
  • Glad
  • Push

• I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Remember
  • Child
  • Direction

• There are so many bands I am starting to see: Waterparks, Potty Mouth - they're all garage bands that started in the garage. Kids are loving them.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Kids
  • Bands
  • Garage

• Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Live
  • Bands
  • Blackfoot

• But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Good
  • Support
  • Bands

• For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

  

  Michael Cerveris
  • Together
  • Careers
  • Bands

• She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Skinny
  • Temples
  • Wildness

• Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

  

  Evan Dando
  • History
  • Bands
  • Consumption

• We always get lumped into that whole '80s thing, but we were never a part of it. For a start, we weren't even from America. And anything that those bands did, they only did because we started it off. That's the only thing that we can be attached to the blame of.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • America
  • Start
  • Blame

• Girl and guy bands both rock.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Girl
  • Rock
  • Bands

• I definitely like being in bands with other women because it's just, I don't know, it's just better.

  

  Ali Koehler
  • Women
  • Like
  • Bands

• I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Introduced

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