Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.

And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where I had a band - and I had a great time with a band - but it was almost like pandering to get a record label deal.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

Australia is so entrenched in rock'n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.

Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.