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Quotes About Band

When he was directing some comedies by the revered nineteenth-century Russian playwright Chekhov, he started to notice how often people in nineteenth-century Russian plays faint — very often — so he called the production 33 Swoons and focused on all the fainting. Whenever someone fainted, a band played a fanfare. There was a different fanfare for men and women.
~ Unknown
Droid Gotra, a lethal band of repurposed battle droids with what some considered legitimate grievances against the Empire for having been abandoned after their service during the Clone Wars.
~ John Jackson Miller
We spent that summer in complete selfishness, I'm happy to say. The people in the world who could be selfish in the summer of 1942 were a small band, and I'm glad we took advantage of it.
~ John Knowles
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Det var fullt mulig å være personlig selv om du hadde fem andre musikere i ryggen.
~ Unknown
The zone of melancholy which I then entered was as distinct from the zone in which I had been bounding with joy a moment before as, in certain skies, a band of pink is separated, as though by a line invisibly ruled, from a band of green or black. You may see a bird flying across the pink; it draws near the border-line, touches it, enters and is lost upon the black.
~ Marcel Proust
BACK IN THE TRUCK Virgil said, "Jesus, I thought I'd stepped into old home week." "Hey, Dog Butt is a good band," Johnson said. "Tight. They got two lead singers, a man and a woman, taking turns, and honest to God, you can boogey your ass off.
~ John Sandford
I was just thinking that Edward's Tumescent Cloaca would have been an excellent band name." "Emo, obviously," Kahurangi said. "Their first album glistened with promise, but their follow-up was a little flaccid." "Their third album was really shitty." "To be fair, the competition was stiff that year." "I just thought that they should have showed more spunk.
~ John Scalzi
We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
~ Stone Gossard
Like most bands we're a family, family before band. If we broke up tomorrow, we'd still be friends.
~ The Rev
Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.
~ Brad Paisley
When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
~ Stephen Malkmus
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
~ Bill Bruford
Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human hand. Somehow those pylons had been strung with wire, and those towers raised, and roofs tiled. There had been food and drink for millions of mouths. I don't cry easy, but my vision blurred as I stared on the ruins of what we had been, and I watched the small band of men in rags move toward it to pick at it like birds on the carcass of some giant.
~ Unknown
But the Clash as a performing band, either live on-stage, or back together in the studio: that can never happen again. It was hard enough to envisage a Clash without Mick Jones in 1983, but it is impossible to envisage one without Joe Strummer now or at any time in the future. Even if the other members of the band do get back together, and they (or Sony) choose to use the name, it won't be the Clash. Joe Strummer is dead, and irreplaceable. That's it, now. From here to eternity.
~ Unknown
In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
~ Andy Summers
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
~ Joseph Hopkinson
A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
~ Julian Casablancas
I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.
~ Bon Scott
Everyone, My hair is better then fu..ing anyones! My hair is the reason we started the band, cause I couldnt sing, and they were like, well just look at his hair! and I was like, fine, you can look. but you cant touch.
~ Oliver Sykes
Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
~ Thom Yorke
I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.
~ Unknown
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
~ Martha Reeves