Band Quotes - Page 30

• Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

  Joan Jett

  Different, Vets, Astronaut

  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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• If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous."

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Blow, Play

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• I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

  Tim Lambesis

  Thinking, People, Genre

  Source: www.rocksins.com

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• European festivals area lot bigger than American ones, but I like the travelling festivals, it's the same production every day and the bands get used to the stage set up and by the third or fourth show of the tour they're putting on a better show than if they just played one day.

  Tim Lambesis

  One Day, Festivals, Used

  Source: www.rocksins.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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• 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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• If what you want to do is make artwork for bands, you have to love doing it because there is almost no money in it. In order to start doing it, you just have to put yourself out there, work for bands you love and for as little as possible to start, if not free, that's what I did for years.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Order, Years, Want

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

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• I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.

  Drake Bell

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Jeans

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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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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• 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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• One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

  Ace Frehley

  Couple, Mean, Ems

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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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• 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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• "If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."

  Thomas Watson

  Loyalty, Art, Hero

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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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• I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

  John Mayer

  Who I Am, Dave, Matthew

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• He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

  Jack Campbell

  Patience, Dark, Light

  Jack Campbell (2009). “The Lost Fleet: Relentless”, p.144, Penguin

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• I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

  John Wozniak

  Love, Sadness, Able

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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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• 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 followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

  Marc Edwards

  Track, Lost, Folks

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