Band Quote by Luke Hemmings

It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians.

— Jay DeMarcus

We were never a boy band. We always had much more to offer than that, I thought.

— Morten Harket

We thought being in a boy band was like the coolest thing ever. And this is before I even knew I could sing. I…

— Benson Boone

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be…

— Liam Payne

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not…

— Thom Yorke

I guess we share some traits with different boy bands. But we are boys in a band.

— Calum Hood

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

— Kevin Jonas

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

— Olly Murs

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

— Jon Gordon

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

We were a working man's boy band.

— Ronan Keating

We were just a high school band that loved music, you know?

— Steve Lukather