Band Practice Quotes

#1. My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

Mayer Hawthorne

#2. There are days where maybe the obstacle is too great, maybe I don't want to get up and go to classes or attend that marching band practice, but whenever I have those days, I just realize that I have to get it done and everything will turn out great in the end.

Patrick Henry Hughes

#3. Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.

David Pajo

#4. I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and then just listening to it and saying 'Dude, we made that music!' That's really fun.

Sam McCandless

#5. Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

Harry James

#6. I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

Lawrence Welk

#7. My mom was in a band for over 30 years, and my brother, sister, and I start taking classical piano lessons when we were three. She's really the reason why I'm still playing piano - she made me practice every day before school and made it a priority even when we didn't necessarily want it to be.

Tess Henley

#8. Let's find someplace where there aren't any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that's big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara)
Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. God doesn't smile at us one day and frown when we blow it the next. When our children have been given the gift of Christian righteousness, God is always smiling at them because he sees them in his Son.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#10. One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

Anthony Bourdain

#11. Now you know about it, and you can do whatever you want to it.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

Seth Godin

#13. The sweating is awful. It's not as bad as the not eating, but it's weird - cold sweat, all over my forehead, having to be wiped off every two minutes, smelling like skin concentrate. People notice. It's one of the few things people notice.

Ned Vizzini

#14. I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

King Tuff

#15. I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

Ian MacKaye

#16. Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

John Keats

#18. Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Dweezil Zappa

#19. 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

#20. So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's ... an opportunity to develop.

Buddy Rich

#21. Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.

James S.A. Corey