Band Quotes

• Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

  Gene Simmons

  Reality, Rocks, Play

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• We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Political

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• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Gone

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• I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

  Colin Greenwood

  Nice, Mean, Successful

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

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• We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Oasis, Arrogant

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

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• Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

  Elton John

  Hard Work, Reality, Crafts

  "Elton John: Wannabe Stars Have to Pay Their Dues". www.foxnews.com. September 20, 2004.

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• That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Mistake, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

  Brad Paisley

  Guy, World, Building

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

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• Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

  Brad Paisley

  Years, Nelson

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

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• Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

  Nile Rodgers

  Needs, Boost, Call Me

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• A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Mind, Legends

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• When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

  Mike Shinoda

  Tired, Waiting, Sound

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• I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

  Gene Simmons

  Dream, Done, Alive

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• Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Rehearsal, Want

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• One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

  Layne Staley

  Heart, Break Out, Firsts

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• If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

  Peter Steele

  Mother, Moving, Iceland

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• Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

  Gwen Stefani

  Halloween, Want, Excuse

  "Gwen Stefani Rocked The Sheer Trend Back In The ‘90s" by Amanda McGowan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

  Gerard Way

  Different, Lockers, Saws

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

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• Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

  Wim Wenders

  Soul, Stories, Spirit

  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

  Lucinda Williams

  Wanted, Materials

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• My school colors were clear. We used to say, 'I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

  Steven Wright

  School, Color, Naked

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• It is not a band. It is an idea.

  Gerard Way

  Ideas, Mcr

  "My chemical romance 'can never die', Gerard was says" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2013.

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• I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

  Glenn Miller

  Music, Want, Jazz

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• If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

  Nikki Sixx

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

  Jeff Healey

  Blind, Drink, Blindness

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