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Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the disaffected band dispersed or destroyed. The result has been creditable to the troops engaged in the service. Severe as is the lesson to the Indians, it was rendered necessary by their unprovoked aggressions, and it is to be hoped that its impression will be permanent and salutary.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away.

All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

A national language is a band of national union.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

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

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

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.

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.