Athens Quote by Michael Stipe Download Open image “When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.” — Michael Stipe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athens Band Firsts Maps Ukulele
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
We just knew that we wanted to be in a band. We wanted to be in a great live band and we wanted to… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest. — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
When we started off, we weren't even thinking of being a global band. We just ended up becoming that. — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I remember in the days when we started, when we first went on the road, we went to Berkeley and played with Exodus. We… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
We wanted to create the kind of band of whom I'd be jealous if we went and saw them. We dug deep inside and… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public's band. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this,… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not… — Gianluca Basile Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
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