Band Quotes - Page 29

• Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

  Gene Simmons

  Lines, Ass, Form

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned". Interview with Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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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• I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Rocks, Sometimes, Knows

  Concert in Sydney, April 19, 2007.

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• Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

  Josh Klinghoffer

  Teenager, Mates, Wanted

  "Interview: Josh Klinghoffer talks Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dot Hacker, Rock Hall of Fame". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. May 1, 2002.

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• This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time. It's a really, really old job. When you look at the way that a small band toured back in the '50s, it's similar to the way that a small band tours now. It's been this long tradition, and when you meet somebody who has been doing this for a really long time, you have to have tremendous respect for them.

  Will Sheff

  Jobs, Old Job, Long

  Source: www.spin.com

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• People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

  Lou Reed

  Song, School, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even finish the video. And that's really sad, because maybe I'd like that song. I think that we don't give stuff a chance to really sink in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Thinking, Giving

  "Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna, All Grown Up". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. January 13, 2014.

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• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the idea behind it and the idea of helping people, but I feel you help people more by exposing yourself.

  Andy Biersack

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

  Justin Broadrick

  Rocks, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Justinas Mikulskis, secretthirteen.org.

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• As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as many people as possible. The more people like the music we put out, the better the label and artists will do. If anyone genuinely likes what we do they will find us, buy our vinyl or come to see the artists play live.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Play, People

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• I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Opportunity, Worry, Life Is

  "Anthony Kiedis interview: Full transcript". Interview with Sofia Wenborn, tvnz.co.nz.

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• From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Character, Artist

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to be drawing, designing and then literally cutting and sewing every piece of costume for my first band I formed in Hollywood.

  Ashley Purdy

  Real, Cutting, Drawing

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs.

  Matt Smith

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.

  Matt Smith

  Next Week, Events, Albums

  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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• I don't love playing new songs in a festival environment. Because when it comes to a festival a lot of people probably won't know your band really well at all so playing more familiar songs is a little more conducive in having a better show.

  Jack Barakat

  Song, People, Littles

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• We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds cool. I'll go home with tracks of cool parts and work on words. Everyone in the band has a job to do and everyone knows their job and we all do it really well. So, when we're writing, we can just look at one another and say, 'OK, go write this part'. It's not just one person writing or producing everything - everyone's working to product what we have.

  Mitch Lucker

  Jobs, Home, Writing

  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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• At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want to be in a band to begin with were groups like Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Sepultura... everything that my dad would buy and bring home to me and my brother saying 'Hey, listen to this'.

  Mitch Lucker

  Brother, Dad, Home

  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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• Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

  Nikki Sixx

  Real, Rocks, Needs

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