Quotes About Music

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

My friends always had bands, and we would play together.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.

FNM didn't really become one of my favorite all-time bands until after I'd had all their records for a couple of years. And realized I was playing them every day.

Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about.

B-52's are one of the most unique bands, not just sonically but aesthetically, too. When you look at them, you know it's the B-52's.

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.