Top 1200 Good Bands Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.

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.

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.

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.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Some New York bands you'll see rocking Ones or Dunks and things like that, but it is weird that the sneakerhead thing has become so massive. Personally, I think it's really silly.

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

When I play solo, that's when I put it all together. I go through all of the songs that I've written wtih all of the different bands; that, for me, tells its own story, and the DVDs really enforce that.

Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.

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.

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.

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.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy?it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

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 a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

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.

In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

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.

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.

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.

Being in the bands of a hurricane, it's not like a tornado that's going to pass very quickly. It's the most serious thing that you will ever experience next to, I'm sure, an earthquake.

I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy - they all have influences from both.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

If you want to be a good shot-blocker, you're going to be a good shot-blocker. It's simple. You can't teach it. You're either good at it, or you're not good at it. If you're good at it, then be really good at it.

My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together.

To build my core strength, I do push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, on-the-spot running with bands, and individual runs.

For a lot of bands, the London club scene very much starts to become more important than the music they create. Which we never want to happen.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

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.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

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.

People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.