Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'

The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

There's a great rock and roll scene in Sweden. There are many smaller bands like ourselves that are great. Oh yes, there's a band called Eggstone, they're really good, and a band called the Soundtrack Of Our Lives, which is excellent.

There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it makes it real, it is not tangible but it is the spirit of the moment.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him. You know, you can trace it back from how old you are and the boy bands that came along then and the teen sensations and whatnot. And, you know, good for them. There's a few of them that make it out and a few of them that don't.

There's always only been three of us [drummer Joey Shuffield, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Tony Scalzo and myself], but when we first started we didn't have anybody augmenting the band, so everything had to be kinda to the point anyway. We did that record and toured a while on that, but I just got sick of playing it every night. It felt like doing push-ups to me.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

There's no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn't be - bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.

There's no way you could get me onstage with someone that I didn't like. No way. I would never do that. We have our gripes and stuff like that. All bands have their drama, but life is too short to be miserable around somebody that you don't like.

There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being in a band. And a lot of comics play instruments.