Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

I’ve been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

I've been touring every year since the band broke up. It's my job. It's what I love to do. So I'm all good with it.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, "What do we do? We want to do what you do." It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.

I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

I've thought about bands or performers who appear from nowhere: You come out of the greenroom in this secure little unit, then you do this thing and you're shielded from everybody. I'm thinking of brilliant people, like Mariah Carey, who have no interaction. They interact with the audience at the time of the live thing but there's no build up and there's no afterward.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.

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.