Band Quote by Devin Townsend Download Open image “The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.” — Devin Townsend ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Band Good Honest Music making Reason Young
I love Strapping Young Lad. I'm incredibly proud of that band; I'm incredibly proud of everything we did. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
What made Strapping Young Lad important, at least to me, was I was being honest about whatever was important to me at that time.… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band. — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
We knew we were tight and good, but we didn't know we were going to be the band to help each generation cut its… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians. — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. — Elton John Copy Share Image
We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive. — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
We were never a boy band. We always had much more to offer than that, I thought. — Morten Harket Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I like Canada for a number of reasons, politics and people and all that stuff aside. I was raised there, and I write music… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I guess I'm not really into female vocals that sound masculine, I guess. A lot of times, the heavy female vocalists always end up… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of options, to be honest. The more options that I have, the less time that I spend actually completing… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else! — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
After Strapping, the amount of things in my life had changed were more than I'd ever had to process in any one time, and… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but I found… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I think when music, specifically heavy music, the motivation for it is other than truly feeling it, that's when it becomes really difficult for… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency,… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just a guy… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is more to me than just having been in the Runaways. And even though I'm really, really proud of what the band accomplished,… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish.… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image