Band Quotes - Page 27

• I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Writing, School, Painting

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• I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.

  Janis Joplin

  Moving, Simple, Rocks

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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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• The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

  Chuck Berry

  Guitar, People, Style

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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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• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Girl, New York, Gigs

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• The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

  Billy Gibbons

  Quitting, Enough

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• There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Years

  "Twenty years after In Utero, Nirvana's importance hasn't diminished" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

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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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• The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

  Mickey Hart

  Grateful, Play, People

  "Mickey Hart on the Grateful Dead: 'We Weren't a Girl Scouts Troop'". Interview with Benjy Eisen, www.rollingstone.com. April 16, 2012.

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• The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

  Ethan Hawke

  Writing, Moments, Process

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.

  Chuck Comeau

  Dream, Simple, Thinking

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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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• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mistake, People, Looks

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

  Earl Monroe

  Artist, Blood, Years

  "'The Pearl' Still Shining: An Interview with New York Knicks Legend Earl Monroe". Interview with Keith Schlosser, bleacherreport.com. November 24, 2009.

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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

  Sections

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• I love rings, but I cant wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

  Justin Tuck

  Mean, Years, Wife

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• Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

  Rick Astley

  School, School Days

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• I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Real, Rocks, People

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• We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

  Allan Houston

  Talking, Want, Problem

  "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

  Ronnie Wood

  Long, Digging, Stills

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• I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Thinking, People, Favorite Bands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

  Paul Shaffer

  Fire, Play, Add

  Paul Shaffer, David Ritz (2009). “We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga”, p.58, Anchor

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• When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

  Chris Frantz

  Summer, Sports, Cousin

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