Bands Quotes · Page 15

There were some great bands in the 90s like Blur and Oasis, The Stone Roses and all that.

— Dylan Llewellyn

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

— Greg Saunier

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

— Jim Capaldi

B-52's are one of the most unique bands, not just sonically but aesthetically, too. When you look at them, you know it's…

— Brendon Urie

To build my core strength, I do push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, on-the-spot running with bands, and individual runs.

— P. R. Sreejesh

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of…

— Michael Kiwanuka

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

— Dimebag Darrell

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't…

— Joe Cocker

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands…

— Buddy Rich

There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's…

— Ed Kowalczyk

As long as bands are still out there slaving away in the garage and putting out their own records and just pushing…

— Milo Aukerman

We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and…

— Jancee Dunn

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real…

— John 5

I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and…

— Malin Akerman

I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together…

— Travis Barker

I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that…

— Nick Mason

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something…

— Jonny Greenwood

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd…

— Jarvis Cocker

There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense…

— Marco Mendoza

At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want…

— Mitch Lucker

I'm 24, and a lot of people my age grew up listening to bands that were big and making it from around…

— Josh Jones

Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find…

— Jorma Taccone

I would listen to artists like My Chemical Romance, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Blink-182, Paramore... all these bands were so unafraid of being…

— Yungblud

A lot of bands don't really like each other. I read an Interpol interview the other day, it was a really good…

— Benji Madden

I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated…

— James Murphy

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

— Nancy Gibbs

Sometimes you might be a fan of bands but you don't know where they're from.

— Jade Puget

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior…

— Miles Teller

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

— Paul Stanley

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

— Prince

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

— Mayer Hawthorne

Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big…

— Brian Setzer

In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!

— Jim Diamond

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

— Elton John

If you don't realize that there are great rock bands out there, you should look for them.

— Finn Wolfhard

It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.

— Miki Berenyi

I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.

— Jacob Bannon

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

— Anonymous

There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

— Isaac Hanson

We love the New York hardcore bands like Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All - the whole thing.

— Max Cavalera