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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You can picture price fluctuations around an equilibrium level as a rubber band being stretched -- if it gets pulled too far, eventually it will snap back. As a short-term trader, I try to wait until the rubber band is stretched to its extreme point.

Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure, stuff like that. That was a huge part of my teen-years and bands I still listen to right through to this day, but it had a huge bearing on me as a teen and it was some of my favourite music, and is still to this day some of my favourite music.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

Sometimes it's just the creative intent of an artist or band that inspires me. I'm generally drawn to artists or bands that put themselves out on a limb somewhat and do something that infuriates both the mainstream and the indie purists, but that can't necessarily be classed as either. To me it seems somewhat convenient to be on either end of that scale.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls

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.

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it, and the band is necessary for the songs to emerge, but the band doesn't exist just so the songs can emerge.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

The band geek has liquor?

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.

The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.