Band Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Rolling, Stones

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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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• There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

  Meat Loaf

  Oil, Australia, Political

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

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• I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

  Danger Mouse

  People, Wake Up, Nightmare

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

  Danger Mouse

  Done, World, Wanted

  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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• I'm a big fan of London in the summertime. English people are dependent on weather to change our attitudes, and, provided it's a decent summer, everyone's spirits are uplifted and the whole place is in bloom. It's a magical transformation. London in the summer, going to see bands play outside, watching football.

  Ed Westwick

  Summer, Football, Attitude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

  Liam Gallagher

  Years, Five, Five Years

  "Beady Eye rises from ashes of Oasis implosion". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.

  Liam Gallagher

  Writing, Heart, Done

  "Beady Eye rises from ashes of Oasis implosion". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Baseball, Age, Jazz

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Ideas, Rocks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.

  Travis Barker

  Ideas, People, Together

  Source: www.complex.com

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• We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

  Mark Hoppus

  Thinking, Years, Trying

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• Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

  Conan O'Brien

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• The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.

  Panda Bear

  Rocks, Opposites, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Mean, Pieces

  Interview with Bryce Dessner, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

  Matisyahu

  Coffee, Home, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

  Tony Palermo

  Crazy, Punk, Hairstyles

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• Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows.

  Tony Palermo

  Song, Guy, Energy

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• I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.

  Joe Jonas

  People, Feel Good, Three

  "Get Ready to DNCE". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

  Roger Ross Williams

  Community, Southern, Style

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Being in this band [the Spice Girls] is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.

  Emma Bunton

  Girl, Dream, Leaving

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