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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.

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

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

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.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

[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.

Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.