Band Quotes - Page 19

• I'm really a one-man band.

  Graham King

  Men, One Man

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

  Britney Spears

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: collider.com

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• We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

  Jaime Preciado

  Song, Safe, Places To Go

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• I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

  Sam Dunn

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  "Heavy metal and violence: More than a myth?" by James Donkin, www.cnn.com. ay 12, 2008.

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• The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam Hussein supporters to get them to talk. Theyre blaring heavy metal music at them. That should make the artist feel pretty good, huh? Put your heart and soul into your last CD and the Army is using it to torture people.

  Jay Leno

  Military, Heart, Army

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• Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

  Gene Simmons

  Lines, Ass, Form

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned". Interview with Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.

  Matt Berninger

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

  Josh Klinghoffer

  Teenager, Mates, Wanted

  "Interview: Josh Klinghoffer talks Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dot Hacker, Rock Hall of Fame". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. May 1, 2002.

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• I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Years, Play

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• People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

  Lou Reed

  Song, School, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even finish the video. And that's really sad, because maybe I'd like that song. I think that we don't give stuff a chance to really sink in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Thinking, Giving

  "Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna, All Grown Up". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. January 13, 2014.

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• I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Fashion, Real, Men

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• You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing. You can’t say: “I came here to Cha Cha and they’re playing a Waltz, godammit!”

  Jeff Bridges

  Challenges, Discomfort, Waltz

  "Exclusive: Oscar Nominee Jeff Bridges On Crazy Heart - The RT Interview". Interview with Rosamund Witcher, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

  Andy Biersack

  Laughing, Guy, Want

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• I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the idea behind it and the idea of helping people, but I feel you help people more by exposing yourself.

  Andy Biersack

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

  Andy Biersack

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

  Justin Broadrick

  Rocks, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Justinas Mikulskis, secretthirteen.org.

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• As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as many people as possible. The more people like the music we put out, the better the label and artists will do. If anyone genuinely likes what we do they will find us, buy our vinyl or come to see the artists play live.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Play, People

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• The most important part about playing shows and touring, is connecting with fans. At the end of the day it's not really a band and fans, we're all just human beings.

  Hayley Williams

  The End Of The Day, Important, Fans

  "Paramore's Hayley Williams on their self-titled album + 2014 New Zealand tour!". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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• When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

  Moby

  Rocks, Punk, Classical Music

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fire, Light, Competition

  Interview with Sofia Wenborn, tvnz.co.nz.

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• From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Character, Artist

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead.

  Chris Johnson

  Inspiration, Different, Records

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• I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs.

  Matt Smith

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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