Top 1200 Rubber Bands Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

I'm very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they're one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.

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.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Bands such as LiLiPUT and Essential Logic were just as unorthodox as Gang of Four or Wire, even taking their sounds a step further with shrieking vocals and saxophone.

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.

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

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.

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

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

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.

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.

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.

Like most bands we're a family, family before band. If we broke up tomorrow, we'd still be friends.

When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie.

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

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.

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

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

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

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.

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

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

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

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.

For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.

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 just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

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

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.