Band Quotes - Page 28

• Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

  Mike Patton

  Jealous, Thinking, Focus

  Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

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• There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

  Alex Kapranos

  Produce, Load

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

  Pete Townshend

  Cynical, Machines, Audience

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• I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.

  Matt Stone

  Night, Voice, Tuesday

  "'South Park''s Matt Stone". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.

  Nikki Sixx

  Crazy, Fall, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, People, Citizens

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Struggling in my father's hands,
  Striving against my swaddling bands,
  Bound and weary, I thought best
  To sulk upon my mother's breast.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Struggle

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.166, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

  Frank Pittman

  Couple, Cheer, Brass Bands

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• Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

  Ellis

  Running, Couple, Play

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• A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

  Sharon Stone

  Queens, Kids, Thinking

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• You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

  Michael Stipe

  Teenage, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.

  Michael Stipe

  Thinking, Play, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

  Michael Stipe

  Fall, Vision, Faces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

  Thom Yorke

  Toil, Labels, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

  Adam Anderson

  Creativity, Trying, Genre

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I'm really a one-man band.

  Graham King

  Men, One Man

  Source: collider.com

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• Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Play, Crowds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Remember kids: Don't get emotionally attached to a band. You'll get pregnant and die.

  Ashton Irwin

  Kids, Remember, Dies

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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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• A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, People, Littles

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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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