Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.

Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.

Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules. By that definition, we are a hardcore band.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

For me personally, Blink-182 has been a big influence. Just seeing them way back in the day play little shows and start from a garage band to where they are now, makes me believe anything is possible if you truly want it and commit your life to it.

From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

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

For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.

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

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

[Gord] Downie has become more animated than the early days, but he's still the same charismatic performer. And as a whole, that band is really the result of each individual member. If one member was not a part of it, it wouldn't be the Hip. They're all crucial to the whole thing.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama...or something.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.