Band Quotes - Page 17

• We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

  Scotty Moore

  Ass

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• Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

  Bill Vaughan

  Children, Tails, Lame

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• I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. Thats just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

  Johnny Marr

  New York, Cat, Thinking

  "Salford lad is back" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.

  Steven Tyler

  Love Is, Rocks, People

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• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  Natascha McElhone

  Growing Up, Husband, Thinking

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

  Molly Ringwald

  Father, Years, Trying

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• I totally have this thing for Harry Styles from One Direction. But like I could totally date the rest of the band as one. I mean, if I could date all of them at one time that'd be like ideal. They seem pretty close, but who knows? Maybe not that close.

  Cassie Steele

  Mean, One Direction, Style

  "Cassie Steele Isn't Suffering From An 'L.A. Complex'". MTV Interview, www.mtv.com. April 24, 2012.

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• My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.

  Steve Valentine

  Fun, Character, Views

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• A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

  Rob Delaney

  Thinking, Long, Endurance

  "'Catastrophe' Creators Talk Rom-Coms and Romantic 'Endurance': 'It's Love Under Pressure'". Interview with Paige Phelan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July08, 2015.

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• The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  Pat Metheny

  Life Changing, Unity, Musician

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• Disharmony is natural in any band.

  Joan Jett

  Natural, Disharmony

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• I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

  Ed Speleers

  Thinking, Heavy, Feels

  Interview with Suzanne Freeman, www.scholastic.com.

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• Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

  Chuck Berry

  Home, Rocks, Way

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• From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  School, Play, Ballet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

  Billy Gibbons

  Quitting, Enough

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• Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

  Brian Johnson

  Hungry, Blackberries, Smoke

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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• Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

  Stevie Nicks

  People, Sides, Projects

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Past, Night

  "Paul Weller heads across the universe on 'Saturns Pattern'". Associated Press interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 10, 2015.

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• We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.

  Chuck Comeau

  Together, Records, Wrecks

  "Simple Plan Reveal New Album Plans, Talk 5sos & Warped Tour". Interview with Maria Sherman, www.fuse.tv. July 22, 2015.

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• My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Creating, People

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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• I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

  Tom Odell

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• To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

  Scott Weiland

  Player, Guitar, Energy

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• With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Age, Degrees

  "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

  John Philip Sousa

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