Band Quotes · Page 57

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But…

— John Gallagher, Jr

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

— Sammy Hagar

You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing.…

— Jeff Bridges

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of…

— Charlie Daniels

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play…

— Jeremy Renner

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

— David Pajo

I just don't believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all…

— Neal Brennan

There was no way I was gonna be in a band and show my face.

— Shawn Crahan

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

— Anonymous

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero

If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work,…

— Laura Moser

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

— Adam Jones

The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not…

— Tamaryn

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were…

— Ray Manzarek

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

— Nico Muhly

The great thing about being a great band is that it takes risks.

— Bill Ward

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were…

— Travis Barker

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to…

— Ezra Furman

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.

— Ashton Irwin

There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record…

— Lindsey Buckingham

We were extremely lucky that someone discovered us as a band and that we got to experience a type of cinderella story.

— Bill Kaulitz

As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night…

— Martin Kemp

That's very hard because there's three of them that mean a LOT to me equally. 'Lissie's Heart Murmur' was one of the…

— Theresa Wayman

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that…

— Damien Chazelle

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in…

— Amanda Palmer

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and…

— Gord Downie

Nobody has one band anymore. They've got two and three and four!

— Martie Maguire

Being in a band is like a marriage because you have to care about everybody because you're all living together.

— Susan Tedeschi

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

— Lysander Spooner

I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to…

— Ashley McBryde

You can't take a singer out of a band that's already established and put another singer in and dress him up the…

— Ronnie Radke

You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.

— June Millington

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the…

— Jon Bon Jovi

I know, being a band that's mostly gay and has women in it, I just think that there are the male icon…

— Kate Pierson

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

— Sting

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great…

— Phil Anselmo

Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business.

— Jack Conte

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

— Steve Porcaro