Top 1200 Favorite Bands Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?

Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.

I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great.

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

I always liked that about bands like the Beatles. They could be so touching at one moment and then 'Helter Skelter' the next.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

Mike Patton is my mentor, and he releases two to five records a year with many different bands, and he gets stuff done.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Volbeat is one of those bands, where as soon as I hear them, I know who it is. It sounds like Elvis - backed by a Metal band.

We do a big business with our midsized-venue model. We don't need bands to be on the top-ten charts to make money.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

I was in several bands, and we just started off doing the clubs and dancehalls in the valleys - and eventually moved on to the colleges and universities.

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

Arctic Monkeys are actually one of my favourite bands going, which is really weird cos I went to school and college with them.

It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it.

When I was a kid I was the king of mullets. If you’re wearing a rock T-shirt and you’re a fan of Rush – one of the greatest bands in the universe – you’ve got to have a mullet.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.

Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.

I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.

I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.

I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

Those late '60s early '70s bands would take it really far out and get super-weird.

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.

You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about fictional characters.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

Music is how I unwind. I love going to see bands or DJs at a festival or a dive bar. My taste is pretty diverse.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

I sang in bands as a kid. In high school, I was already on the road doing a single. And that's no fun. Then came 'Wonder Woman' and children.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.

That's why I don't necessarily enjoy it when bands cover other songs. You'll never recreate what has been done, especially if it's something that's legendary and classic.

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.