Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.

I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever - on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

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.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard to come by-stuff by the Special Interest Group and the Zobo Funn Band. The Zobo Funn Band was a big Northeast cult band. We had about a billion skirmishes with the big rock industry.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

I was in two very horrible bands.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape. I didn't get on a TV show. There were no shortcuts. Anybody who wants to follow my model is welcome to it. You don't want to follow my path.

I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band.

I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

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

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

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

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.

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.