Band Quotes - Page 6

• My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Brother, Together, Musician

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• Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

  Adrian Belew

  Lonely, Luxury, World

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• I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

  Greg Ginn

  Thinking, Purple, Black

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• By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

  Steve Albini

  Wise, Rocks, Scum

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

  Mary Timony

  People, Born, Dies

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• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Brass Bands

  “Readers recommend: best brass songs” by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Play

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• The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

  Geezer Butler

  Hair, Calling, Growing

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• The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

  David Byrne

  Scene, Groove

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• I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Important, Velvet

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• I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

  Bridget Hall

  Rocks, Shirts, Tees

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• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Mean, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

  Phillip Noyce

  People, Laughing, Together

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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Football, Art, Kindness

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Tunes, Able

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking, Stuff, Matching

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• I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

  Steve Albini

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

  Stan Getz

  Jazz, Kind, Mickey

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• My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

  Chico Hamilton

  Player, Rocks, Two

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• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  Ace Frehley

  Finding The One, Wife, Trying

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• In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

  Rachel Stevens

  Scary, Clubs, Horizon

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• When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

  Ken Hensley

  Mistake, Long, Want

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• I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

  Lee Ryan

  Boys, Psychics, Tarot

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• And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

  Santiago Durango

  Chicago, No Money

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• There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

  Santiago Durango

  Fifty

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