Band Quotes - Page 20

• I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band.

  Matt Smith

  Writing, Heart, Trying

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, People

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• A lot of bands have intense names, like "Rigor Mortis" or "Mortuary". We weren't that intense, we called ourselves "Injured". Later on we changed it to "Acapella" when we were walking out of the pawn shop.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Rigor Mortis

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• Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Inspired

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• We're just some little metal band.

  Mitch Lucker

  Littles, Metals, Metal Band

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We're just a heavier version of metal. Heavy metal will never go away. It's like a cockroach. It's the best title, because we play metal that's heavy.

  Mitch Lucker

  Play, Going Away, Titles

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• My brother was in high school and he had a garage band going, but no one would sing. They were covering a Hatebreed song at the time and I knew the words for it. My brother knew I knew the words, so he came inside the house and he's like 'Hey Mitch, come out here and sing'. I did it and after that I started a band with my older brother. That's how I got started.

  Mitch Lucker

  Song, Brother, School

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Ideas, Nouns

  Source: www.inlander.com

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• It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Past

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information out there is really helpful. If you really love to play, I would say to keep doing it, because it's what you love and what you have to do.

  Joan Jett

  Play, Information, Facts

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• I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.

  Billy Joel

  Teacher, School, Self

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

  Jeremy Fisher

  Play, People, Reason

  Source: amusicblogyea.com

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• The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.

  Joey Jordison

  Song, Pressure, Members

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.

  Jay Sean

  Nice, Hands, Secret

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• Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

  Cornelius Eady

  Writing, Years, Three

  "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

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• Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Home, Cutting, Rocks

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

  Henry Rollins

  Space, Proximity, Wells

  Source: emptylighthouse.com

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• The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, People, Sloppiness

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

  Herbert

  Together, Dukes, Jazz

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Fall, Media, Ideas

  "Eyes Wide Open". Interview with Corin Tucker, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2015.

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• Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I originally wanted to be a singer, but I was average. I made 18 records, but none were that great. I was in a dance band at Bournemouth Pavilion for three years, and I played guitar too.

  Tony Blackburn

  Guitar, Average, Years

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.

  Tony Blackburn

  Water Skiing, Years, Clubs

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I always had this dream to make a solo record. I told my mom when I was 7 years old, but I just ended up being in bands. I'm a free spirit. I follow my heart, and it's led me to where I am.

  Fergie

  Mom, Dream, Heart

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections.

  Serj Tankian

  Writing, Here I Am, Imperfection

  Source: www.pbs.org

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