Band Quotes - Page 2

• My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

  Stevie Nicks

  Brother, Family Love, Emotional

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• It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle

  Zakk Wylde

  Lifestyle, Bigger

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• I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.

  Ben Harper

  Song, Empowering, Feelings

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• I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

  Cliff Martinez

  Country, Couple, Years

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• In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

  Matt Cameron

  Couple, Fun, Different

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• We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

  Simon Le Bon

  Bombs, Want

  Interview with John Taylor, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 1, 2012.

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• The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

  Brian Eno

  Play, Enough, Reason

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• I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

  James Marsters

  Writing, Making Money, Wells

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• It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen

  Thurston Moore

  Growing Up, Aerospace, People

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• I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

  Greg Ginn

  Real, Sound Quality, Play

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• Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  People, Problem, Sometimes

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• But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Signatures, Different

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• I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Gigs, Months

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• Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Aging, Impulse

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Oasis, Stones, Pilots

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• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

  Jack Black

  Made, Runners, Runner Up

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Aug 24, 2013

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• I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

  Tony Blair

  Good Enough, Enough, Has Beens

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• When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

  Brooke Burke

  Keys, Rocks, Drummer

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• If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

  Geezer Butler

  Music, Boys, Poison

  "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

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• I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.

  Levon Helm

  Nice, People, Yamaha

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• After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Today, Stealing, Scene

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• The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

  Sid Vicious

  Dirty, Silly, Naughty

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• Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Sound, Half

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Thinking, Play, People

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• We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

  Layne Staley

  Kids, Differences, Gone

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