Band Names Quotes

#1. A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

Justin Vernon

#2. We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.

Adam Schlesinger

#3. Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

Nate Ruess

#4. When I was a kid, I was playing in various bands - amateur bands, garage bands, weekend bands, you name it, around the area. At some point, I just wanted to try the whole 'Beatle tribute band' thing, so I found a local band that was doing that.

Steve Landes

#5. My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship ...

Rob Schwimmer

#6. Take control of your life..don't let the people in your life...take control of you!

Gwen Cannon

#7. You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Tibor Fischer

#8. Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.

Norman Granz

#9. Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!

Robbie Williams

#10. Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

Chad Smith

#11. It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

Judd Apatow

#12. I'm keeping my opinions to myself, they just get me in trouble.

Lauren Conrad

#13. It seemed off that anyone could live behind such a high hedge of thorns, and he began to think it would be no great surprize to discover that Mr. Wyvern had been asleep for a hundred years or so. 'Well, I shall not mind that so much,' he thought, 'so long as I am not expected to kiss him.

Susanna Clarke

#14. Read often. Read well.

Elaine Donadio

#15. The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

Thom Yorke

#16. I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them ...

Ace Hood

#17. I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

Chris Reifert

#18. You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

Gerard Way

#19. ...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

Chinelo Okparanta

#20. The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Mark Twain

#21. It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

Carrie Brownstein

#22. For Sleeping or Jumping couldn't be a better band name at a better time in music.

Ben Weinman

#23. I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#24. A heart that yearns for romantic love cannot be quenched by any other passion, position or property.

Franklyn James

#25. I listen to a lot of other cyber metal bands such as Fear Factory, Sybreed, and Mnemic to name a few, so it has certainly influenced my style.

Paul Wardingham

#26. Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

Janina Gavankar

#27. It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

Martin Freeman