Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Blackberry Smoke is my favorite band!

Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Can we just do this?” Ray asked tightly, clinging to Zheng’s already slightly elongated arm. Because Louis-Cesare wasn’t the only one with a master power around here. “Let go,” Zheng told him. “I’m the rubber band; you’re the spitball. And spitballs don’t hold on to rubber bands.” “Die in a fire,” Ray told him savagely. But he let go.

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.