Top 1200 Favorite Bands Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I love different eclectic bands. I love Phoenix and Kimber.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.

A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

I really don't like it when members of bands slag each other off in the press. If you've got a problem, you should sort it out without going public.

I think a lot of bands would rather put mediocre rock tracks on their album to try to maintain some sort of testosterone badge of courage.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

The thing that annoys me is that I hate it when people charge bands to play with them. I hate that.

I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place.

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.

I've obsessed over a lot of bands in my time, and I'm sure I'll become infatuated with a lot more in the future.

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

I definitely like being in bands with other women because it's just, I don't know, it's just better.

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

I have a fascination for well-produced '70s and '80s rock with a lot of harmonies. AOR bands like Journey, Jefferson Starship, Toto, Kansas, Boston.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I'm becoming hip to my children because bands of their generation name us as influences, so you can definitely hear it, the same way as we were influenced by other people.

Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is what it is like, the awful, wonderful brightness of Fairy colors. Try to smell the hard, pale wood sending up sharp, green smoke into the afternoon. To feel the mellow, golden sun on your skin, more gentle and cozier and more golden than even the light of your favorite reading nook at the close of the day.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

My musical tastes are very diverse. I just never felt like listening to certain kinds of bands. There's too much great stuff out there.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

As we've gotten older, we've used resistance bands more and more.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

There should be a lot of bands like the Go-Go's out there, but there aren't.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

In the past, I played in bands, worked at coffee shops, babysat, and worked as a production assistant.

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.