Band Quotes - Page 32

• 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 always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

  Robert Fripp

  Differences, Pulse, Steps

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• Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Ed Sullivan

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• Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

  Neil Young

  Long, Professionalism, Bother

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• I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

  John Lydon

  Country, Hero, Mean

  "What's up? Docs!" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

  Ketch Secor

  Girl, Player, Female

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

  Imelda May

  Together, No Point, Ifs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.

  Win Butler

  People, Political, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

  Cris Mazza

  Girl, College, Special

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

  Cass McCombs

  Able, Ready, Willing

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• A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

  Bill Bruford

  Reading, Rocks, Guy

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• Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Silly, Safety Pins

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• My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

  Lindi Ortega

  Growing Up, Dad, Player

  "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.

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• Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

  Stark Sands

  Growing Up, School, Rocks

  Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. April 14, 2010.

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• New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.

  Allan Kozinn

  Running, Labels, Records

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• Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the sound is always fresh. I was impressed. I think you will be too.

  Tony Trischka

  Creativity, Thinking, Blue

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• I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "Collider Interviews Sunny Mabrey and Michael Angarano". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 5, 2006.

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• I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like. I just like to fantasize that he would like our band and he would know what we were up to.

  Theresa Wayman

  Wish, Cobain, Right Now

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• The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.

  Johnny Ramone

  Years, Class, Albums

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Aug 21, 2015

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• Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

  Ricky Gervais

  Boys, Piracy, Boy Bands

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2012

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• Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

  Nico Muhly

  Jealous, Long, Conservatory

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

  LeVar Burton

  Growth, Patterns, Rubber

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the morning, I work on my core stability and do some work with the exercise bands. Sometimes I do some upper body and a little bit of leg weights to get warm and ready for training. And then I'm out on the pitch.

  Jozy Altidore

  Morning, Exercise, Training

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Player, Swings, Doe

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