Band Quotes · Page 218

There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that…

— Toby Keith

Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like…

— Rick Wakeman

I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the…

— Mika

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I've thought about bands or performers who appear from nowhere: You come out of the greenroom in this secure little unit, then…

— Sue Tompkins

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

— Tom Verlaine

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

— Matt Squire

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

— Maynard James Keenan

One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each…

— Bob Weir

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.…

— Wayne Coyne

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no…

— Benji Madden

I really try to find inspiration in all band's I've toured with because everyone's up there doing their own thing and captivating…

— Maria Brink

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never,…

— Sasha Frere-Jones

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

— Randy Jackson

When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a…

— Johnny Van Zant

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was…

— Robert Wyatt

But I can tell you that my favourite singer is Shania Twain and my favourite band is Lonestar.

— Matt Le Tissier

We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured…

— Reed Mullin

[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP…

— George Michael

And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles.…

— Patricia Briggs

Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense…

— Jon Gordon

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's…

— Angus Young

To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part…

— Mike Portnoy

I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and…

— Sam McCandless