Band Quotes

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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time.… — Burt Bacharach
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike… — Theodor Adorno
I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like… — Jon Anderson
To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music — Phil Anselmo
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;… — Virginia Woolf
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once… — Eliza R. Snow
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person. — Ben Moody
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline. — Lew Wallace
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of… — Douglas Coupland
We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us… — Jack Irons
The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a… — Joshua Homme
In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just… — Pat Benatar
The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet… — David Cassidy
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a… — Neil Steinberg
Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going… — Adam Rich
We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than… — Adam Rich
A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off. — Adam Rich
Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous... They're heavy like… — Unknown Author
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm… — David Sanborn
I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional… — Richie Sambora
There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the… — Jason Molina
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing. — Norman Granz

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