Band Quotes · Page 233

My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left…

— Kathleen Hanna

I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by…

— Carl Palmer

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

— Cass McCombs

I used to go trick-or-treating all the time. When I was young we had the plastic mask with the rubber band that…

— Kenan Thompson

I would love young girls to look up and see my string section or my brass section or the steel band and…

— Kano

The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all…

— Johnny Winter

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella…

— Michael Schenker

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it…

— Duke Ellington

The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band…

— Roger Taylor

Some day we'll be a 35-year-old band, and then we'll be a 40-year-old band - I daresay that we will be a…

— John Popper

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

— Elijah Wood

Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her…

— Alex Gaskarth

I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.

— Trombone Shorty

Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's…

— Frederick Lenz

Everyone dreams of being in a band because they want to be like the Beatles, but even the Beatles weren't always that…

— Mick Hucknall

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos.…

— Bruce Springsteen

There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere…

— J.R. Ward

The fact that our band has weathered so much and stayed together for so long and we still get on stage and…

— Tony Kanal

If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and…

— Stone Gossard

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock…

— Moira Kelly

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play…

— Jimmy Page

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

— Mitch Lucker

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

— Augusten Burroughs

We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the…

— Rex Smith