Band Quotes · Page 25

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

— Ann Wilson

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

— Jamie Bell

No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.

— Christian Fennesz

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on…

— Meg White

Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me.

— Phil Elverum

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

— Ringo Starr

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

— Caroline Corr

I thought I could make a solo album, then go back to the band. But 'No Parlez' was the end of me…

— Paul Young

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore…

— Mat McNerney

My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time…

— Jools Holland

When I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go…

— David Bryan

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become…

— Jim Sturgess

“That was the thing about playing with a band, Peter thought. There was always someone else to rescue you when it seemed…

— Jennifer E. Smith

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly,…

— Mike McCready

Ultimately with our band, it's word of mouth. It seems to be the largest cause of The Hip outbreak - if we…

— Gord Downie

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a…

— Tom Petty

[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

Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where…

— Phillip C. Schlechty

When the Eagles started, I was the best-known one in the band. I remember when Poco would play the Troubador, Glenn and…

— Randy Meisner

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked…

— Todd Rundgren

You just have to have a song that you're desperate to play along to, and for me it was 'Turn' by the…

— Amy Macdonald

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my…

— Florence Welch

We've done every record on our own. Its produced by our guitar player and sometimes we'll have some help mixin' it and…

— Jess Margera

At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you…

— Johan Hegg

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

— Anna Sui

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

— Anonymous

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

— Billy Sherwood

It's so different playing with a band as opposed to singing an anthem.

— Susan Tedeschi

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

— Caroline Corr

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

— Keith Jarrett

I don't think anyone can relate to me as well as my band-mates can.

— Tony Kanal

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

— John Gourley

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

— Alice Cooper

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

— Gene Simmons

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

My friends always had bands, and we would play together.

— King Tuff

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

— Charlotte Caffey

I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot.

— Lauren Mayberry

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

— Charlotte Caffey