Band Quote by Ian MacKaye

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

— Mary Timony

Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.

— Chris Cornell

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create.…

— Brian Chippendale

I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.

— Lizzy Plapinger

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

— Flea

I'm becoming hip to my children because bands of their generation name us as influences, so you can definitely hear it, the same way…

— Curt Smith

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

— Thom Yorke

Kids don't want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to give them…

— Chad Gilbert

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

— Greg Saunier

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

— Glenn Miller

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

— Debbie Harry

My hope for young bands, honestly, is that they do it because they love it, they do it because it's real.

— Sonny Sandoval