Bands Quotes · Page 16

I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

— Chris Cornell

“Bands like The Move , Traffic and The Moody Blues were proving that you didn’t have to be from Liverpool to be…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of…

— Pete Wentz

They say that love is forever, your forever is all that I need. - Sleeping With Sirens

— Amanda

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

— Curt Smith

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles -…

— Alex Lifeson

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

— Bruce McCulloch

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier…

— Geezer Butler

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys,…

— Andy Biersack

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a…

— Travis Barker

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin…

— Matt Bellamy

I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I…

— Jack White

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I always hate people that complain about showbiz after they've had a good run. To me there are so many great bands…

— Miles Zuniga

“Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up…

— Paul Miles

No sir man, I don't like that crap. I'm a rocker, dude, through and through. Here's my favorite bands. AC/DC, Van Halen…

— Joe Dirt

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like…

— Nate Ruess

There are five of us. We've all played in various bands together, in different combinations. I know that Todd [Cook] and Tony…

— David Pajo

I think its a natural progression for bands to evolve. People say were an amalgamation of all these genres but back in…

— Gym Class Heroes

I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland…

— Bill Watterson

It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.

— Lewis Capaldi

I played with local bands and ended up touring with Scissor Sisters, Mylo, Alphabeat, and Calvin Harris. That somehow changed into DJ'ing.

— Kristian Nairn

I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has…

— Alex Scally

I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.

— Mura Masa

Look at bands like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers - they represented something real because they could kick live.

— John Popper

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

— Oscar Isaac

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

— Viv Albertine

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

— Nuno Bettencourt

They are one of my favorite bands and one of my first musical loves: Devo.

— Matt Skiba

Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent,…

— John Hillcoat

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

— Bucky Pope

My musical tastes are very diverse. I just never felt like listening to certain kinds of bands. There's too much great stuff…

— Steven Wilson

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the…

— Jack Antonoff

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set…

— Beck

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

— Judd Apatow

The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my…

— Elton John

We really look up to bands like INXS and Midnight Oil who always stayed true to their roots.

— Calum Hood

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.

— Greg Gutfeld

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

— Rob Zombie