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Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.

Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

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

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

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

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.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

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

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.

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

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 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.