Band Quotes - Page 35

• I always wanted to play music, and always loved it. I saw a band come to school, when I was in elementary school, and wanted to play drums. I started playing drums at 11, and that's where it all started.

  Patty Schemel

  School, Play, Saws

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• Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

  Mick Garris

  Important, Singers, Youth

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• We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more.

  Spencer Smith

  Trying, Tone, Catchy

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• I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.

  Luke Treadaway

  Looks, Radio, Tvs

  "InStyle speaks to Luke Treadaway". Interview with Sarah Smith, www.instyle.co.uk. March 7, 2013.

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• It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

  Luke Treadaway

  Years, Fake, Film

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

  Don Henley

  Song, Dad, Hero

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• The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

  Boy George

  Splits, Way, Separate Ways

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• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  Brian May

  Queens, Thinking, Arms

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• What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Rocks, Important

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• I hate the attitude of, 'oh we already have a Lydia Lunch, so we do we need a Bikini Kill.' Well, there's like 2 hundered million all-male bands writting 'baby baby I love you, let me drag you around on my ankle.' Is that enough already? Duh!

  Kathleen Hanna

  Baby, Attitude, Hate

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• I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Feminist, Ambassadors, Roles

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• I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

  Steve Aoki

  Mom, Teenager, Dark

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• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

  Al Jourgensen

  Thinking, Rocks, Southern

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• When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

  Eric Clapton

  Voice, Mouths, Electric

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• I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

  Henry Rollins

  Disappointed, Left, Left And Right

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• I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Play, Giving

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• More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Song, Eye

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• Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.

  Henry Rollins

  Hard Work, Writing, Complaining

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• Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

  Henry Rollins

  Attention, Littles, Singers

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• There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Independent, Views

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• I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, England

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• Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.

  Henry Rollins

  Differences, Numbers, People

  "The Column! Are You Collector Scum?" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

  Henry Rollins

  Kings, Firsts, Towns

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• I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Numbers, People

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• The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Years, People

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