Band Quotes · Page 75

I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I…

— Michael Stipe

There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say,…

— Eddie Vedder

I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind…

— Condoleezza Rice

In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world,…

— Caitlin Moran

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater…

— Adam Baldwin

Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very heart of the Empire's military-industrial complex, the most secure…

— John Knoll

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

— Josh Silver

'Human' was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within…

— Brandon Flowers

The message of this band [All Time Low] is go out and do what you want to do and believe in yourself…

— Alex Gaskarth

Chris Kirkpatrick and I were in college in choir together; we sang at our community college. I'm partially the reason why Chris…

— Howie Dorough

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like…

— Jon Gordon

I formed my first band when I was going to Valley Torah High School in Los Angeles.

— David Draiman

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

— King Tuff

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also…

— Paul Zollo

We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band,…

— Bent Saether

We're obviously a London band, and British at heart.

— Ted Dwane

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

— John Wozniak

Well, for Earth, Wind & Fire, we would often say that the band was more dynamic live than on record.

— Philip Bailey

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

— Geezer Butler

I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a…

— John Green

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go.…

— Earl Scruggs

There is never going to be a band like The Who again.

— Jim Kerr

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

— Imelda May

The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your…

— Nikki Sixx

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just…

— Dave Keuning

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really…

— Josh Turner

It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how…

— Andy Biersack

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

— Keith Richards

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was…

— Gemma Arterton

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with…

— Johnny Ramone

Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you…

— Glenn Hughes

The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel…

— Frederick Lenz

In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us…

— Tamaryn

We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded,…

— Dave Grohl

What makes us so different from anything else is we're a rock band with a boy band fanbase.

— Luke Hemmings

I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you…

— Wayne Coyne

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids…

— Carrie P. Meek

Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are…

— Roy Thomas Baker

I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music…

— Gary Sinise