Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikey Way

This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.

Mark Knopfler

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Mark Hoppus

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,

Naima Adedapo

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

Marcus Mumford

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

Kiefer Sutherland

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

So everyone can see the tradition that our band has.

Justin Sane

That's exactly how we wanted it to be. And I think they knew what they were signing. At this point, I'm convinced that they didn't sign us to try to mold us into something we're not. They knew they were signing a political punk band that had things they wanted to say.

Natalie Imbruglia

It's not very often that I like new bands.

Leona Lewis

I'm glad I was never in a band.

Lars Ulrich

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

John Deacon

I wouldn't do go to another band.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

Phil Anselmo

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music

Keith Jarrett

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

Rachel Stevens

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

Paul McCartney

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

Jimmy Page

The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.

Joan Jett

Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

Geezer Butler

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

Elliott Smith

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

Hayley Williams

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

Gordon Lightfoot

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

Paul Stanley

At any moment, a viewer can choose what they want to see, and use different camera angles. So if you happen to have the good taste to see me, you can watch pretty much solely that. It's really your mix and your version of the show. I don't think we can forget that the band is really in peak form, and that's really shown on this DVD.

A band with this many credentials is like a legacy fulfillment thing. I'm pretty surprised. I'm happy I'm doing so well.

Tom Anderson

A band with no history can get 40,000 people looking at its video just by getting on the site and doing some work. It's a strong incentive. The technology has changed so much in the past six or seven years. You can make a video cheaply. The quality may be lacking, but I think fans get excited when they discover a band that's made its own record or video. They're the first to see them underground.

James Corden

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

A lot of the guys in the band are formally, classically-trained musicians.

Josh Johnson

A lot of the scene is pretty inbred as far as band members go. Lots of guys play in more than one band. There's only like 20 bands and everyone knows each other.

Peter Hayes

A lot of these songs were written for our first album. One of them, Shuffle Your Feet, was from before we were a band even. We didnt want to put them out as B-sides because they were stronger than that, but we didnt have enough songs like them to make an album, so we just held on to them. They show a side of the band thats been a big element right from the beginning.

This band room would not be here without the band parents. They do so much. They give so much to this band, and they're so enthusiastic. They're so supportive.

This band really speaks to college kids and the response for them is overwhelming. They were what we thought of as the future of rock music, and we wanted to get behind them and give them our seal of approval.

Janet Weiss

This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.