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Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You can picture price fluctuations around an equilibrium level as a rubber band being stretched -- if it gets pulled too far, eventually it will snap back. As a short-term trader, I try to wait until the rubber band is stretched to its extreme point.

Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure, stuff like that. That was a huge part of my teen-years and bands I still listen to right through to this day, but it had a huge bearing on me as a teen and it was some of my favourite music, and is still to this day some of my favourite music.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

Sometimes it's just the creative intent of an artist or band that inspires me. I'm generally drawn to artists or bands that put themselves out on a limb somewhat and do something that infuriates both the mainstream and the indie purists, but that can't necessarily be classed as either. To me it seems somewhat convenient to be on either end of that scale.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it, and the band is necessary for the songs to emerge, but the band doesn't exist just so the songs can emerge.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.