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When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going to this folk club in Auckland. My dad [Barry Andrews] was in punk and post-punk bands, so I guess it was a side of music I hadn't really listened to before - the really narrative form of songwriting.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.

When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

When you're looking at a sea of people there ready for a band, it is an unbelievable feeling. You've just got to seize the moment and put on the best show you can and make sure everybody's having a good time by the end of it.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc...and that really sucks.

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.