Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

That's the hard part. With the distance they did us a disadvantage. Here we are getting home (last night) at 7:30 at night, and we are going to have to leave (tomorrow). That's tough to turn around with cheerleaders and players and coaches and the bands, the pep bands and the administration.

I was real inspired by The Cramps, a band from Tacoma called Girl Trouble and Tom's band, the U Men.

Johnny Marr

I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.

Paul Myers

Most companies have enough bandwidth to handle all their work plus a little extra for emergencies, but they pay a premium for going over their allocation, so it really becomes a matter of money.

Michelle is a very talented Irish dancer. Chris Foster has the same influences as mine. He's mostly interested in 1960s rock n' roll. The youngest member of the band is not yet 30 and the oldest is approaching 50, so we have a broad range of musical experience. We all bring those different influences in when we play.

Who knows? Maybe Hillary Clinton saw the band in Park Ridge.

Marching band today isn't your grandmother or grandfather's marching band where the band walked out onto the field, stopped and played a couple of songs and walked off the field. These students are moving thousands of steps at high tempos all the while playing an instrument or using a piece of color guard equipment during one show.

David Ellefson

I think reuniting original lineups is awesome. Ultimately, that's what people want to see. You know, you see elder statesmen of classic rock doing it whether it be REO SPEEDWAGON or STYX doing it. You know, getting as many of the original members that are still around. You see them doing it, you see metal bands doing it, pop bands DURAN DURAN , everybody's trying to do that. I think what everybody realizes at some point is that if you can make those things work it's really cool. Ultimately, that's what the fans want to see when they go see those bands. They want to relive that piece of their youth or that piece of their life when that band was doing what they do best. So, I think given the right circumstances, those things usually fare pretty well for everybody. And most importantly, the fans are happy about it.

Johnny Ramone

I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.

We received a donation to bring the band to Marietta and cover costs, and that's why we can offer tickets at such a reduced price.

Yeah, it's a dry, raw recording. That's what we want people to hear: a rugged--not a polished--album. So much of today's hard core is nothing but trigger drums and Marshall amps. Most bands can't pull off their sound live, so why use that stuff?

We catch a lot of bands that just need to make some gas money.

We couldn't have had worse timing. Us breaking up kind of killed the record. But keeping a band together is a complex thing. I see the mistakes I made now. In hindsight, we should have just taken a break.

It doesn't take a whole lot of leadership to jump on the bandwagon and criticize President Bush when everyone else is, too.

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.

Nicky Byrne

We were lucky to make it but it's even harder to stay successful - there are always new kids on the block. A lot of the new bands want to go to heaven but none of them want to die. No one wants to do that hard work.

We have to start considering new factors for the mobile world, from configuring creative for smaller screens and bandwidth that's available. Strictly giving users the option to opt-in is another important factor, which you can easily do with SMS.

James Hetfield

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

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.

Freddie Highmore

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

Jerry Harrison

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Jack White

I won't join another band again.

Sebastian Bach

I could never want to be in a band where the ultimate good job I could do is to really impersonate somebody a lot. What kind of a life is that?

comes out of pain and difficult times, and the humiliations and the way people get through them and band together as a family in response.

Jerome Charyn

I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.

OPEC has shown itself to be market-savvy by recognizing that waiting for the price band mechanism to kick-in could cause a slump well below $22 a barrel,

Guy Berryman

On 'X&Y,' we're utilizing the band a bit more, ... In the same way that when you listen to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, just for example, it's all about the band. It's a development and a natural organic growth from where we left off.

Chris Squire

Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It's quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It's not like I'm the guy who has the name under my own contract.

Gabe Norwood

Our fight song was playing and our pep band wasn't even here yet. They did a good job, so I can't complain.

Brendon Urie

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

Brandon Flowers

'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.

Benmont Tench

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.