Band Quote by Mat McNerney

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

— Matt Bellamy

There's a great rock and roll scene in Sweden. There are many smaller bands like ourselves that are great. Oh yes, there's a band…

— Nina Persson

I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a…

— James Mercer

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the…

— David Pajo

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

— David Byrne

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really…

— Fred Frith

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

— Rob Zombie

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

— Sondre Lerche

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

— Bucky Pope

We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard core bands like Bad Brains, not that we sounded like…

— John Rzeznik

The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album…

— Johnny Ramone

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp