Best 1531 quotes in «band quotes» category

I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.

Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.