Band Quotes - Page 37

• Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

  Herbie Mann

  Wine, Age, Done

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• I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

  Eugene Mirman

  Guitar, Play, Rocks

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• The best way to break up with a girl is like I'm taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girl, Way, Break

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• You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!

  Arj Barker

  Mean, Alzheimer's, Disease

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• I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

  Christian Finnegan

  Play, Bass, Good Enough

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• Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fleetwood Mac, Macs, All Time

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• I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.

  Michael Buble

  Mean, Play, Musician

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• It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.

  Tessanne Chin

  Song, Powerful, Guitar

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• The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

  Christian McBride

  New York, Green, Firsts

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• I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

  Art Pepper

  Want, Chance, Great Experiences

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• Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

  Danny Barker

  Player, New Orleans, Giving

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• Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

  Harry James

  Practice, Used, Whole

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• I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.

  Dave Grohl

  Hate, Space, Just Being

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• You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Years, Want

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• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  Dave Grohl

  Men, Ideas, Monsters

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• A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

  Tommy Bolin

  Believe, Stories, Should

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• I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

  Tommy Bolin

  Working Together, Records, Want

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• I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

  Courtney Love

  People, Wish, Singers

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• I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

  Marilyn Manson

  Levels, Kind, Treated

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• I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

  Patrick Stump

  Fall, Boys, Differences

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• Its cool when I meet young guys from other bands who say how much an impact Aerosmith has had on them and how much they like me.I'll give 'em that 'C'mon you don't mean that' routine, but in my heart I know where they're coming from. If I had grown up in the '70's and was into rock n' roll, I know the kind of impact Aerosmith would have had on me. I know the kind of impact that Elvis and Jagger had on me, and while I'm not comparing myself to those guys, I can relate.

  Steven Tyler

  Heart, Mean, Impact

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• The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a lot of food for thought, but people have to remain curious and get their brain activity food from other places besides punk.

  Jello Biafra

  People, Interesting, Brain

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• My all time favorite band is Paramore and she's basically one of the reasons I was inspired... umm, well Hayley Williams from Paramore was one of the basic reasons I wanted to go rock. I saw the band live and they're great together and they write incredible music and also I like a lot of older bands. I like Motley Crue a lot and who else, I've got a lot of favorite bands but those are pretty much the main ones.

  Demi Lovato

  Writing, Rocks, Together

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• One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

  Bill Bruford

  Player, Information, Way

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• I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

  Bill Bruford

  Writing, Player, Two

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