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We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.

Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.

Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going to be a bluegrass band, but I guess when Peter left Bill Monroe he had had enough of bluegrass. He had written some songs and of course the Beatles were a big influence back then. So, we decided to something different and it ended up being that.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

We're just some little metal band.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

We never nicked stuff from other bands because that was a no-no because we were all in the same boat. You don't steal from the poor because, let's face it, they're poor. There's no sense in that.

We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

We've got the best kind of parents for us, in this situation. My parents are super supportive of me and really into our band. They get just as excited as we do, about stuff that we do. So, it's pretty cool.

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

We use a neck training machine where you can strengthen the muscles, going front to back, side to side. You can also connect a big resistance band to a wall or something and do the exercise like that.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

We went in and recorded exactly where we were at that point in time. I think because of the quality of musicianship of the band has given it the longevity. I thought the music would endure, I didn't think I would ... I always thought I'd be dead by 30, then dead by 40 and on and on. Now I'm 55 so I didn't even die at 50.

We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?" "Shut up, Garett." "Yes, ma'am.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.