Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming.

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.

My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s and did a lot of radio work back then. When he came to my home town in early 1942, I sat in with the band. Ted liked me and offered me a job.

My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.

My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It fit in more with someone using a laptop to create their own electronic music. When you're doing music like that, it's hard to get more than 20 people to come to your show.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band