Bands Quote by Chris Stokes

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

— Jesse Andrews

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the…

— Dawn Angelique

Look at the New Kids on the Block, the Back Street Boys and *NSYNC... all those boy bands happened because of New Edition.

— Ginuwine

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into…

— John Connolly

I started in blues bands when I was 15.

— David Essex

I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

— Olly Murs

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but…

— Brandon Flowers

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions,…

— Izzy Stradlin

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it…

— A. J. McLean

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

— Jon Bon Jovi

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

— Dee Dee Ramone

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

— Ronan Keating