Band Quotes · Page 110

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

— Roger Daltrey

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

— Lauren Mayberry

There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians - just the kind of…

— Paul Gilbert

We want to be considered a band, like Maroon 5 or Coldplay.

— Kevin Olusola

I am going through a Neil Young phase. I also listen to a lot of alternative country, a band called Smog and…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is…

— Bryce Dessner

I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and…

— Dolores O'Riordan

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation…

— Tarja Turunen

I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of…

— Michael Stipe

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

— Levon Helm

We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every…

— Lemmy Kilmister

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It…

— Chrissie Hynde

We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.

— Florian Schneider

No one has done what we've done. We're the first female band to have a No. 1 record.

— Charlotte Caffey

'Wii Music' elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is - as 'Rock Band' and…

— Carrie Brownstein

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

— Joaquin Phoenix

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Everybody has their iPhone cameras, BlackBerry cameras, and I see those cameras pointed up at me all the time now, which is…

— Ronnie Montrose

Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K.K. [Downing] was in the band. He…

— Rob Halford

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but…

— Bryan Adams

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played…

— Benjamin Booker

There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you…

— Barack Obama

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his…

— Anthony Fantano

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start…

— Isaac Marion

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

— Carolyn Porco

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

— Tony Palermo

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it…

— Brandon Thomas

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on…

— Alvin Lee

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that…

— Kurt Cobain

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a…

— Jodi Picoult

I've had a high turnover of band members because I require something very specific, musically. I require someone who's really creative, as…

— CMAT

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in…

— Cliff Martinez

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

— M. Shadows

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

— Phil Ehart

In high school the dream was to go on a stand-up tour and front a heavy metal band. I always had that…

— Jim Breuer

I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the…

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

— Chad Kroeger

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy…

— Chris Frantz

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind…

— Kathleen Hanna

Once I had the band, Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] - it's very exciting to have that trio of…

— Jose James