Band Quotes · Page 9

I think I'm just trying to show a more mature side of the band and I think we've really come into the…

— Jason C. Miller

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the…

— Glenn Gould

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a…

— Ryan McGinley

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started…

— Cyndi Lauper

“As individuals they were each of them fallible, discordant as notes without harmony. But as a band they were something more, something…

— Nicholas Eames

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

— Anonymous

I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.

— Chris McCaughan

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.…

— Janis Joplin

I'm really focusing on songs that transfer well to live music, because my live band is such an important part of what…

— CMAT

I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one…

— Kendall Schmidt

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in…

— Louis Armstrong

When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are…

— Chris Lane

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

— Bill Hader

I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when…

— Les Miles

The first Maiden record I ever got was 'Piece of Mind,' and I only got it because I thought the artwork was…

— M. Shadows

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and…

— Amy Ray

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

— Anonymous

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition…

— Joshua Homme

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't…

— Marnie Stern

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I…

— Woody Allen

We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs out of hotel windows. In fact, we carried our own…

— Paul Young

Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

— C.C. Hunter

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

— Andy Summers

I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny…

— Jack Bruce

I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally.…

— Maggie Rogers