Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Loeb

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, ... Id been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Neko Case

My personal time is the same as my road time and my studio time. Personal time is working and touring. All my closest friends and family are already in the bands that I'm around, anyway.

It is an end of the year celebration for the radio station. There are some really fantastic bands coming and I couldn't be happier with the lineup.

Sam Hughes

I was doing bands from the 7th grade until eleventh grade, actually. From there, started teaching myself the other instruments.

Jeff Nelson

I think we were a good band, and we worked hard. But considering how many other hard-working bands there were, it's very flattering to have somehow percolated up towards the top and still be considered relevant and of interest today.

I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of screw themselves by setting the bar so low, that we can only go so far with music. Instead I feel like our band as people, our personalities, we kind of had the feeling we can do anything and go anywhere.

Nuno Bettencourt

I think it's very cool to discover new bands and find something on the radio that you think is so cool that you go out and buy it.

Marcus Mumford

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

I think that those bands are really pushing the local scene forward. They are really pushing the envelope and they are great people.

Dave Keuning

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.

Mary Timony

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

Platinum is so popular because women always want what their mothers didn't have. They grew up seeing their moms with gold bands so the white metals became very popular.

Joe Perry

(Our music) doesn't sound dated, because there are so many new bands that are trying to replicate a '70s sound or a '60s sound. The playing field is getting kind of leveled. If you want to go out and see what a big rock show can be, we're there to do it.

People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with the best of the young bands today.

Joe Perry

There aren't a lot of great bands out there that can put on a great rock show. They didn't come up in that environment, in that era before MTV where you really had to be a good live band.

Joe Perry

There aren't a lot of great bands out there that can put on a great rock show, ... They didn't come up in that environment, in that era before MTV where you really had to be a good live band.

Tom Scholz

There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.

We may do a D.J., or karaoke and even small bands maybe, but that would probably be it.

There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

Kelly Jones

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

Kathleen Hanna

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Josh Clark

I was into grunge, the heavy, distorted guitars, bands like Nirvana. Although, we weren't that good. But I wore the flannels, the long underwear, the whole deal.

Warren Haynes

The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the same 14 songs night after night. Our set lists vary drastically, and we keep a log of every set we've played. We try to make every night a different experience.

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.

If the bands hadn't come, the crowd wouldn't have followed.

We have a lot of fun by local bands and entertainers.

Ric Ocasek

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

Ric Ocasek

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

Ric Ocasek

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

Marnie Stern

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

John Meyers

Memphis Smoke has some of the best live bands and singers in Metro Detroit,

John Tesh

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.