Quotes About Bands

A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

I love British bands.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

You see a lot of bands and a lot of artists making that mistake: They become successful for doing something, and then they change everything. They change the people; they change the approach. And then, all of a sudden, almost the essence of what you do is gone.

In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

The feeling that universities were supposed to give, that feeling of possibility and promise, these kids got from playing in bands. By

They were kids. But the ones who could play would often mix with an older crowd. There was no distinction between varsity and junior varsity—strict divisions that applied elsewhere often didn't in the world of local bands.

What I noticed about the West Coast bands was that they had awful rhythm sections. The bassist was just the guy who couldn't play guitar as well as the other guy. In Detroit, the bar was very high—it was the home of Motown.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner circles of some of these artists and bands. And you see how those photographs really capture the artist, the moment.

It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

As a former music magazine editor, I still pine for the days when I used to know about all the best jams and new bands.

Generally speaking, I like all music, but Pink Floyd and Muse are my favorite bands.

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

When I was a kid. 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. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.