Top 1200 Band Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

The rock-band crowd is so different from any other crowd. Because when they are there to see they band, they there to see they band.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

I write these songs and I like the idea of letting the band interpret it as they will. This band is like any band; it's not just me. This isn't just a way for me to play my songs. There are four distinct artistic voices, and they deserve to be expressed.

It's a farmers market. You can get whatever - peaches, a sandwich. There might be a little band there. I'd sit in with the band. Yeah, that's what I would do. Sit in with the band at the farmers market. Sing a couple of songs, eat a peach, and hug people.

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay focused.

I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I was pretty stoked on that, but the band wasn't really my style so after like six months of playing with them I decided to play with the aesthetic of a DIY hardcore band playing pop music. That was the original idea.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldnt live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about

When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.

I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.

I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

I finally got to junior high and I got to start saxophone. There were a few of us that were in the beginner band in sixth grade that made it to the advanced band, which was called the morning band at our junior high school in Staten Island.

For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

I was two years old when I told my mom I was going to be in a band when I grew up, and I was four years old when I started my first band with my neighbors. Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.

To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.

The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it, and the band is necessary for the songs to emerge, but the band doesn't exist just so the songs can emerge.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.

I was in a band called Episode Six with Roger Glover, which was more of a harmony band, really. At one gig, there were a few dodgy characters leaning up against the wall of the venue - and we ended up joining their band. Purple was the talk of every musician in the country - they had something new and very exciting.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

That's what a producer does - make it better; help make the song better and make the band better. Not write music for the band or tell a band what to do. And Rick Rubin doesn't tell you what to do; that's why some people don't like him.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.

Every band is different just because of the different combinations of people really are super unique to every band. The way you work together and the personalities that are being brought to the table. Our band is definitely the best combination of personalities I've worked with so far.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.