Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Winwood

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Craig Ferguson

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Carrie Brownstein

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

Bill Burr

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

Chino Moreno

That was weird because we were the oldest band there. You see a lot of the younger bands, and it's just a reminder of how things are now. It was a good time, but we felt like grandparents out there sometimes.

That's the main thing that we need to be able to do. Once something isn't going your way, that's when you need to band together and turn it around.

I think from the very beginning it was new and special to us, and that's all that mattered. From the beginning, we named our band Of A Revolution, and that might have sounded very lofty, but for us, it was our own revolution. This was music we wanted to be playing, and from the beginning, we knew there was something there.

James Hetfield

A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

Jack White

I won't join another band again.

John Entwistle

It is great to be back in a four piece band where there are a whole bunch of holes to fill and I do it. It is exactly what I want.

I didn't want people sitting at the breakfast table breaking out into song. They are at the recording studio and nightclub. The band is in one way or another performing their material.

Brandi Chastain

I create tension on the elastic band by moving away from the person who's holding it, and I maintain that tension while jumping up to head the ball. It works my legs and core while also working on balance. You feel it helping on the field when you're going up for a header or when an opponent is pulling or pushing to gain position.

Ritchie Blackmore

I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

Roddy Woomble

I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.

Trevor Dunn

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

Elliott Smith

In the event of the band dissolving, any members could be kept to that contract with or without their consent under the same terms.

Richard Butler

I like the idea of going out and doing something more personal and intimate, with maybe just one or two other musicians. I've never done that, and it's great to have that challenge, instead of having a loud rock band to take the pressure off me.

Clive Sinclair

I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.

Robert Quine

I had a band in St. Louis. By then, things that influenced me were the first Stones albums, the first Byrds albums, later the Velvet Underground.

I really want to be able to show these kids what all the years of hard work and practice end up resulting in and what a professional jazz band is supposed to sound like. I would imagine the public would love to support music education because it is so vital to education in general.

I love playing with this band it feels new again. I love playing with Cinderella, but there's not new going on with them right now. We go on tour every other summer, make some money, have a blast, and it's great to get back with the guys again. But with Naked Beggars, for Eric and I, it's a chance to do new music, stuff we can write and record, and then take it to the road ourselves, and have fun.

I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

I love 'Soul Meets Body.' The one thing I can say for sure about DCFC: This band is going to be huge. This record has the kind of scope and breadth of a U2. This will be a platinum-selling record.

John Oates

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

Roger Lewis

I have to give Ibo (Cooper) his props, as a musician and the kind of musician who can lead a band or do anything musically. I can say that it was from him that I really learnt. Ibo was very disciplined, but moreover he knew the music. He had the training and was so able to teach many of us. He was fearless, because he knew the music. Musically, I must give him his props, big props.

Bob Crosby

I knew darned well I had a better band than he had!

I'm one of the guitar players in the band, and my brother is a drummer. We have two cousins in the band and the four of us started playing in 1968. We toured all over the Midwest and the deep south though 1981. It kind of morphed in the mid-80s into The Kentucky Headhunters.

If I were George W. Bush, I would be terrorized by the eyes of those scruffy-looking veterans, the so-called band of brothers, volunteering for duty with the Kerry campaign. They look like men with scores to settle.

Jon Bailey

I had not heard of the band before, but they had good stage presence. They brought a lot of energy but without that rock-star mentality.

Steven Page

I'm very excited about the change. It's a positive change for West Jessamine, and I think in the long run, statewide, it will encourage band growth.

I'm sure we'll beat it. More important than anything else, I think the fans are enjoying it more, I think the shows are better, and I think the band is playing better than ever.

Emmylou Harris

In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.

Rusty Anderson

I knew he had three days before he had to return to England and I just said 'Hey, Paul, wanna play on a tune?' and he agreed. Everyone from (McCartney's) touring band came in and we did the song together - it was very surreal.