Top 26 Band Leader Quotes
#1. I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Billy Sherwood
#2. I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different ... different personalities and musical tastes.
Buddy Rich
#3. I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.
Michael Gira
#4. If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
Kristin Hersh
#5. I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
J. D. Souther
#6. I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
John Philip Sousa
#7. I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.
Ben Moody
#8. I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.
Joe Locke
#9. If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.
Steve Morse
#10. I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#11. It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction.
Aspen Matis
#12. Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.
Stone Gossard
#13. My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
Dan Fogelberg
#15. The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!
Rupert Friend
#16. Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.
Louise Burfitt-Dons
#17. There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
Shannon Hoon
#18. I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.
Dee Rees
#20. We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.
Glenn Miller
#21. I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.
Clive Sinclair
#22. My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Louis Prima
#23. Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders ... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who the hell isn't difficult when you get drunk.
Dick Haymes
#24. That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
Jim Harrison
#25. We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.
Henry Watson Fowler
#26. The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!
Keith Emerson
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