Band Quotes - Page 7

• I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

  Patti LuPone

  School, Play, People

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• The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, War, People

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• This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Summer, Jobs, Rocks

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• I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

  Darius Rucker

  Respect, Thinking, Records

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

  Bob Geldof

  Children, Kids, Epiphany

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• Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

  Peter Tork

  Years, Shoes, Boots

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• Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

  Adrian Belew

  School, Age, Drummer

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• See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

  Mel Torme

  Special, Together, Garlands

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• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  Carla Bley

  Art, Music Is, Farmers

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• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

  Carla Bley

  Stars, Keys, Littles

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• If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

  Jason Behr

  Fun, Thinking, Has Beens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

  Caroline Corr

  Play, Piano, Keyboards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

  Caroline Corr

  Thinking, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

  Benny Goodman

  People, Thrill, Way

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• There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

  Nik Kershaw

  Night, Drink, 80s

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• It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

  Jeff Lynne

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

  Tony Iommi

  Music, Three, Week

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• From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

  Brian May

  Queens, Energy, Momentum

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• We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Dream, Years

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• Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

  Graham Nash

  Musical, Able, Different

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• When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

  Evan Dando

  Years, Sick, Fans

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• Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Ideas, Vision

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• But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Real, Rocks, Indie Rock

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• The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

  Gregg Allman

  Competition, Incredibles

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• Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mean, Warfare, Yoke

  1833 General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.

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