Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

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.

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like. I just like to fantasize that he would like our band and he would know what we were up to.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

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.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.

Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.