Band Quotes · Page 122

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the…

— Johan Hegg

We are a people's band.

— Ivan Moody

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

— Ron Carter

I've been working on some original songs with the band that does the Led Zeppelin experience. We're going to start writing as…

— Jason Bonham

I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so…

— Joey Sturgis

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way…

— Jarvis Cocker

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely…

— Yasmine Hamdan

I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put…

— Kathleen Hanna

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a…

— Murray Rothbard

Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.

— Johnny Van Zant

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

— Landon Liboiron

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do…

— Ian MacKaye

I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress…

— Drake Bell

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

— Rick Danko

I've never seen a boy band that had members who look like us - kids of color from all over the world…

— Kevin Abstract

I just implore local music fans to get out on a regular basis to support the local bands that you like. If…

— Larry Howes

I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very…

— Anonymous

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band…

— Rich Brian

When we first started, and I jumped in this band, I was like, 'I'm not a singer.' I didn't go to school…

— Sonny Sandoval

Being in this band is like being in high school all over again. We're like a bunch of little maniacs.

— Gina Schock

We were an American band and no one cared about us in America.

— Alana Haim

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

— Ringo Starr

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has…

— Patterson Hood

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths,…

— Noel Gallagher

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the…

— Gary Numan

We started the band when I was about 19 or 20. At that age, it would have been kind of hard to…

— John Rzeznik

Sometimes you can gauge the excitement of the rest of the band. If I'm bringing a song in and they're excited, then…

— Matthew Ramsey

I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals!

— Subb-an

To be a type of band that plays a type of music - I just see it as cosplay.

— Matty Healy

I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where…

— Sune Rose Wagner

I create a guise or a band that I can operate within, and within each one of those bands, I've got an…

— Mike Patton

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

— Michael Stipe

I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace…

— Gerard Way

Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent.…

— Barack Obama

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become…

— Dan Hawkins

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you…

— Kim Gordon

When I was in the rock band, I got to do whatever I wanted. I had people paying my bills, and I…

— Brian Welch

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

— Johann Johannsson

We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.

— Shannon Hoon

There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school…

— Josh Turner