Band Quotes - Page 11

• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Chapel

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

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• I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Strong, Two

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.9, Fawcett

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• He was the freeman whom the truth made free;
  Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
  Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
  In spite of fools consulted seriously.

  Robert Pollok

  Freedom, Soul, Fool

  Robert Pollok (1833). “The Course of Time, a Poem: With a Memoir of the Author, an Introductory Notice, a Copious Index, and an Analysis Prefixed to Each Book”, p.74

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• Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

  Jeremy Collier

  Truth, Promise, Unions

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• Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter.

  Groucho Marx

  Wisdom, Two, Forever

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• I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Feminist, Calling

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

  Phil Ehart

  Personal Opinions, Years, Kansas

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• I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

  Phil Ehart

  Girl, Play, Inspired

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• We actually had a Kansa band softball team.

  Phil Ehart

  Softball, Team, Kansas

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• I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

  Phil Ehart

  Kansas, Long, I've Learned

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.

  Phil Ehart

  Song, Moving, Mean

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• I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.

  Jack Barakat

  Talking, Networking, Labels

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.

  Jon Foreman

  Daughter, Morning, Thinking

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• There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people, but that feels weird to me. I don't mean this in a bad way at all but it just feels fake.. I guess in my heart of hearts, whether the person has a good voice or not I want [the songs] to come from them. I don't know why.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: circlesandsoundwaves.com

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• Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Rocks, Opposites

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, Trying, Negative

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.

  Conor Oberst

  Different, Calling, Records

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

  Eddie Vedder

  Going Away, Should, Rap Music

  Interview with Carrie Brownstein, www.believermag.com. June 2004.

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• Whenever I set out in a new direction, whether it's with a new band or being a frontman or writing a comic book or entering into movie scoring or anything like that, I wouldn’t say that I do it fearlessly...

  Tom Morello

  Book, Writing, Entering

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

  Isaac Barrow

  Sympathy, Together, Affection

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• As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Weed, Beach, Flower

  Gretel Ehrlich (1994). “A match to the heart”, Pantheon

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• So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

  Jane Goodall

  Ignorance, Circles, Drawing

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• My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

  Charlie Worsham

  Animal, Night, Nashville

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• ... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

  Fran Drescher

  Feet, Maps, Aids

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn't sound like something they would die for.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Fall, Boys, Thinking

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