Band Quotes · Page 26

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

— Tom DeLonge

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

— Harry James

Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

— Phil Collen

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

— Pat Smear

The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.

— Tommy Lee

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

— Mark Hoppus

We've always been a band that intentionally transcended race and age.

— Black Thought

There's always so much energy from me and my band. Lots of fun and twists in each song.

— Jorja Smith

I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, 'Yes! I never knew it, but that's exactly what I…

— Tech N9ne

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band…

— Robert Crumb

I've actually done bands where it was my band and it was never fun and it wasn't the right place for me…

— Pat Smear

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

— Eliot Lewis

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and…

— Clint Eastwood

I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to…

— Jon Bellion

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more…

— Rob Halford

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians.…

— Sammy Hagar

When it comes to being in a band or going solo, one is collaborative, and one is not. But generally speaking, when…

— Steven Wilson

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had…

— Trey Anastasio

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably…

— David Cassidy

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or…

— Quincy Jones

I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of…

— Olivia Newton-John

Richie Reinhardt, who was only in the band four years, deserted the group. You don't do that when a band has a…

— Marky Ramone

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot,…

— Jon Fishman

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by…

— Frankie Valli

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

— Nick Mason

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

— Rashida Jones

Being in a band with guys didn't feel like what I should be doing.

— Charlotte Caffey

I love being one of the musicians in the back. The light is on the singer and Im in the band. I…

— Marion Cotillard

Say to the cop; Hey, Aren't you that guy from the Village People Band?

— Nicholas R Deel

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

— Michael Stipe

We've always prided ourselves on the fact that we're a band that the whole family can enjoy together.

— Jay DeMarcus

When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well.

— Lou Barlow

I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick

— Lita Ford

A band's best and worst shows really aren't that far apart.

— Pat Smear

I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

— Wes Borland

My dad has been fond of music since childhood. He used to play and sing in his college band in Russia.

— Jonita Gandhi

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

— Wayne Static

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

— Jon Fishman

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

— Fred Schneider

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

— Noel Gallagher