Band Quotes · Page 23

The best way to break up with a girl is like I'm taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

— Colin Stetson

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

— Bill Haley

I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.

— Davey Havok

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

— Adam Jones

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

— Ringo Starr

As a band, we're all trying to be naked, if you will. As naked as we can be.

— Stella Mozgawa

At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

— Demetri Martin

I really first got interested in music on a little bit of a deeper level maybe around sixth or seventh grade. I…

— Justin Tucker

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

— Nick Tosches

We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was…

— Curt Smith

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring…

— Jerry Harrison

I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one…

— Kendall Schmidt

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler…

— Jarvis Cocker

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

— Diablo Cody

One overlooked great 1980s rock n' roll band, maybe punk rock - they were on SST Records, same label as Black Flag…

— Beto O'Rourke

I have worked long and hard to try to reduce my debts, and I am devastated that it came to this conclusion.…

— Shane Filan

A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal.…

— Shawn Crahan

Nowadays, it's a lot more in the kids hands. You don't really need a record label. You can get the money together…

— Mattew Nicholls

It's extremely important, a cappella groups get so easily pigeonholed into essentially just being a cover band, and we want to be…

— Avi Kaplan

I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street…

— Frank Iero

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under…

— Bobby Womack

I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me…

— Douglas Booth

The Nike Fuel Band is interesting - it measures your movements and how far you've walked and how hard you've worked that…

— Andrew Luck

To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

— Steve Martin

I've really never discovered a band from Spotify or anything. I've really only discovered it from friends.

— Finn Wolfhard

Almost every time, if the vocal is really good, the band is almost always good too.

— Mike Campbell

We're a band that struck on a really fantastic formula. We were able to carry it through.

— Philip Bailey

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

— Frederick Lenz

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

— Michael Moore

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

— Andy Summers

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

— Mick Jagger

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

— Rachel Vincent

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

— Trevor Dunn

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

— Tim Lambesis

I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could…

— Gabriel Iglesias

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

— Billy Corgan

The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

— F.B. Meyer

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

— Alex Kapranos

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

— April Winchell