Top 100 Quotes About Band
#1. I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.
Nikki Sixx
#2. The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
Ryan Tedder
#3. I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond ... with my body.
Kimbra
#4. I had an abnormal heart, the kind that stretched like a rubber-band and weakened with every tug I allowed someone to have
Emalynne Wilder
#5. Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
Adam Duritz
#7. We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.
Billy Corgan
#8. Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.
Ellis
#9. I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
Dave Grohl
#10. Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.
Leo Buscaglia
#11. Oh, yeah, I did the online dating thing. I did Nerve, I did Match. On Nerve there was this one guy who, when I asked him what he did for a living, said he 'used to be in a band.' I was like, 'That is not an occupation.'
Julie Klausner
#12. 'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.
Jon Landau
#13. Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over
and you're relieved.
John Green
#14. I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.
Geoff Downes
#15. The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
David Byrne
#16. The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.
Conor Oberst
#17. As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.
Michael J. Fox
#18. I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.
Colin Marston
#19. I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
Zack De La Rocha
#20. They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.
Kyle Baker
#21. I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
Charles De Lint
#22. I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
Jerome Charyn
#23. It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
Chris Martin
#24. It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.
Bill Bryson
#25. Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.
Frederick Lenz
#26. I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.
Chris Hillman
#27. He was supposed to be reading, but all he could do was watch her and love her bare arms, her Alice band, her straight back, the sweet tilt of her chin as she tucked the instrument under it ...
Ian McEwan
#29. Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
Arthur Godfrey
#30. Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.
Brad Paisley
#31. My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.
Oliver Sykes
#32. What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
Andrew Bird
#33. Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).
Chuck Klosterman
#34. When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.
Kim Deal
#35. Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.
Stark Sands
#36. Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
Marcus Mumford
#37. What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.
Greg Lake
#38. We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.
Billy Corgan
#39. To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
Phil Anselmo
#40. I'm kind of claustrophobic ... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.
Dave Grohl
#41. That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.
Liam Gallagher
#42. I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.
Vinnie Vincent
#43. What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
Stephen Malkmus
#44. The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
Dan Auerbach
#45. If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.
Reid Scott
#46. Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
James Young
#47. If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.
Kathleen Hanna
#48. I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.
Bridget Hall
#49. I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
Bob Dylan
#50. A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
John Darnielle
#51. We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
Thom Yorke
#52. I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.
Sebastian Bach
#53. I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
Sandra Bernhard
#54. The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
Bonnie Raitt
#55. As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.
Louis Armstrong
#56. People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
Taylor Hanson
#57. I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.
David Sharp
#58. People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.
Adam Levine
#59. People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.
Paul Stanley
#60. My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.
Nick Jonas
#61. Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!
Freddie Mercury
#62. The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
Alan Greenspan
#63. We really put together a great band, and have a great time.
Steve Brown
#64. I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or open mic shows as possible to get experience. I sang for seven years before getting a record deal, and I was already loving what I was doing. I just got lucky and got discovered.
Bonnie Tyler
#65. Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.
Ron Wood
#66. Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.
Sia Furler
#67. You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
Jenny Lewis
#68. 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
#70. I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.
Ringo Starr
#71. Actually," Coursey lowered his voice an octave, "we've been informed by Homeland Security that three members of a subversive Brazilian band went through Customs at O'Hare Airport eleven days ago.
J.A. Konrath
#72. When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
Timothy B. Schmit
#73. I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
Arto Lindsay
#74. Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.
Rick Wakeman
#75. I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.
Sidney Crosby
#76. Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.
Matt Cameron
#77. What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
Jimmy Chamberlin
#78. As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#79. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
Albert Einstein
#80. I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.
Mitch Hedberg
#81. The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.
Jon Landau
#82. We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.
Scotty Moore
#83. Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.
Ann Wilson
#84. I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.
Rory McCann
#85. It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.
David Grisman
#86. I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
Bruce Springsteen
#87. What was accomplished in 'Band of Brothers' was incredible, from the writing and producing to the performances of the actors who honored all those men that fought bravely and gave the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy today.
Jon Seda
#88. That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.
Danny Gatton
#89. My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.
Suzy Bogguss
#90. I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.
Andrew Wyatt
#91. I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
Layne Staley
#92. From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
Boz Scaggs
#93. I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
Gavin Rossdale
#94. I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.
Steve Albini
#95. It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).
James Gleick
#96. I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.
Nate Mendel
#97. I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"
Danger Mouse
#98. You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.
David Longstreth
#99. I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.
Luke Treadaway
#100. We worked as a team ... I was one of the band.
Jonathan King
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