Band Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I played the accordion in The Edith Head Trio. I'm very impressed by your Googling. The Edith Head Trio and another band, Tzamboni, were two bands I was in after college that played at tiny clubs to little acclaim. Our Gypsy tango version of "When Doves Cry" was our biggest hit.But we were not destined for greatness.

  Daniel Handler

  Greatness, College, Careers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

  RuPaul

  Creating, Rocks, Atlanta

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

  Noel Gallagher

  Mean, Oasis, Giving

  "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. August 21, 2005.

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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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• Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Law, Giving

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Alexander Taylor (1861). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor”, p.156

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• The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

  Alvin Lee

  Anniversary, Thinking, Chance

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• I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

  Chick Corea

  Guitar, Playing Music, Saxophone

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• I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

  John Mayer

  Who I Am, Dave, Matthew

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• Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

  Brandon Thomas

  Rocks, Labels, Done

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• All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.

  Brandon Thomas

  Journey, Together, Wells

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• It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

  Alvin Lee

  Christian, Guitar, Play

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• Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

  Trey Anastasio

  Dream, Blessing, Play

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• I loved being in a band.

  Adam Ant

  "Adam Ant: 'To be a pop star you need sex, subversion, style and humour'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2012.

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• I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

  Ben Folds

  Pain, White, Gigs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've sung background for a couple of bands.

  Randy Jackson

  Couple, Backgrounds

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• To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

  John Oates

  Together, Playing Together

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• The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

  Jon Landau

  Self, England, Conscious

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• I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

  John Wozniak

  Guitar, Play, Playgrounds

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• Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

  John Strachan

  Ambition, Fighting, Men

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• If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nice, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I got to a point in my life when I'd done loads of things I regretted. I made all the wrong decisions. I was trying to fill my life with all these projects, hoping that one of them would succeed. I was like a cheating girlfriend. I was cheating on all the bands with other bands, and I was trying to manage everything.

  Duffy

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else.

  Keith Murray

  Thinking, Trying, Nerves

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