Famous Quotes & Sayings

We do what we love and there's not any intimidation at all. We've played with other bands that have nothing in common with sounds that we do, and people seem to like it.

Mike Jackson

We're all like family. We're like a traveling band of gypsies going to the same shows.

Brandon Thomas

We're all kind of last-chance kids. We've all been in other bands before. This is kinda the last hurrah. That dream we all had for so long.

Brandon Phillips

We played at a birthday party that one of our friends was throwing for his wife. It was two bands and six strippers. And I didn't know it beforehand, but the show was outdoors on the porch of the bar.

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.

Jarvis Cocker

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

Janet Fitch

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.

Freddie Highmore

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

Chris Martin

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

Jerry Harrison

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Jerry Harrison

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.

Jerry Harrison

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

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.

Harry Styles

If I wasn't in the band I reckon I'd be a virgin.

Earl Wilson

For some kids who never even dreamed of going to college, they come to see the games and black football teams and bands from black colleges, and they see what's possible.

Henry Mancini

If it calls for a Madison or a Twist, I'll do it. And if it calls for a tone row or anything in surreal music I'll do that, too. But the dance band is what has given me the kind of little edge towards the jazz field.

Martin Freeman

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that. I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

Greg Laswell

I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

Gary Kemp

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

Jerry Cantrell

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

I did a double bill at the Hotel with him, and we became fast friends, ... I played in his band when he went to Europe. He's kind of like a rock star over there. That trip gave me the energy to go hard again.

Dan Hawkins

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

Neal Doughty

I can't think of many bands that can do that for five years without egos blowing up, but it's still working. We went about a year without seeing them (while touring with Cheap Trick), and we really missed them.

I don't think that that's really ever been something that this band has been about. We're not really a shock rock band. We're not painting ourselves up weird or having any kind of wacky gimmick to what we do.

Carly Patterson

I'd really like to meet Pete from the band Fall Out Boy, ... But really, the best part of the year was that I really loved, well, feeling loved by everyone.

David Roth

I AM NOT THIS WAY, THE WAY I AM, BECAUSE I'M IN A BAND. I'M IN A BAND BECAUSE I'M THIS WAY.

Steve Albini

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members. Or if the drummer was the original member, and it was a surf band -- I don't care. The upfront guys really matter to me.

I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members, ... Or if the drummer was the original member, and it was a surf band -- I don't care. The upfront guys really matter to me.

Vivian Campbell

I... consider it a great privilege to be part of a band who, as a fan, I have watched grown from young hopefuls to a bona fide rock institution.