Bands Quotes · Page 12

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

— Karen O

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

— Anonymous

If I were you, I'd put that away See, you're just wasted And thinking about the past again Darling you'll be okay

— Anonymous

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

— Nile Rodgers

Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega…

— Wayne Static

On Friendster, if you were a band and you made a profile, they would delete it. They didn't want bands on their…

— Tom Anderson

I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

— Eddie Trunk

Some of our favorite bands are, like, Third Eye Blind and Counting Crows, and stuff like Danny Elfman and Jon Brion movie…

— Ryan Ross

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into…

— Beck

When I was a kid, I was playing in various bands - amateur bands, garage bands, weekend bands, you name it, around…

— Steve Landes

People are being more ­experimental. I hear chords being played that really haven't been on the radio. I love that. I go…

— Greg Kurstin

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of…

— Noah Baumbach

I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces…

— Paul Rodgers

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound…

— Brian Chippendale

Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We've been very blessed…

— Synyster Gates

I don't know how these bands did it back in the '70s when they would crank out two records a year and…

— Wayne Static

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock…

— Henry Rollins

I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something…

— Fred Armisen

For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get…

— Mark Oliver Everett

My thing with New York was that it felt so insular. When I went to L.A., everybody I knew was a cool,…

— LP

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off…

— Win Butler

Sometimes if I go to a show, someone will recognize me. But the neighborhood I live in, there's so many people who…

— Chris Baio

Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been…

— Paul Banks

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week -…

— Veronica Vasicka

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

— Dickey Betts

For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.

— Fred Armisen

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

— Neil Young

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict…

— Brendon Urie

We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right…

— Lindsey Buckingham

We do a big business with our midsized-venue model. We don't need bands to be on the top-ten charts to make money.

— Michael Rapino

It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge.

— M. Shadows

There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

— Mark Foster

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

— Mike Birbiglia

I definitely like being in bands with other women because it's just, I don't know, it's just better.

— Ali Koehler

People didnt expect pop music to be authentic. There were a lot of manufactured bands - of which I love.

— Darren Hayes

I get my inspiration from a lot of bands actually. I really like AC/DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and new bands. I like…

— Bea Miller

When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season.

— Brad Goreski

When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind…

— Kellin Quinn

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

— Patrick Stump

Some bands I'm obsessed with but I get sick of listening to their music after a while, but that hasn't happened with…

— Finn Wolfhard