Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.

As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

A national language is a band of national union.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.

And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where I had a band - and I had a great time with a band - but it was almost like pandering to get a record label deal.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.