The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.
Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all.
There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
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.
People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
Black-metal is my favourite. Mayhem are one of my favourite bands. But whenever Slayer comes to town, I am going to that show.
There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.
It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.
We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.
The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.
My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.
It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.
Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.
B-52's are one of the most unique bands, not just sonically but aesthetically, too. When you look at them, you know it's the B-52's.
Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...
There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.
People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
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.
I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.
I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.
Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega huge, like System of a Down or Incubus.
For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.
In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people.
There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.
We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.
Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.
Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.
A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.
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.
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.
I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.
To build my core strength, I do push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, on-the-spot running with bands, and individual runs.
I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.
When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie.
I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.
It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.
I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and I really wanted to design cars.
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
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 really know what's going to happen in the future, but I think it's really important for bands to have strong connection with their fans.
I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
Like most bands we're a family, family before band. If we broke up tomorrow, we'd still be friends.
Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of different artists.
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