Quotes About Band

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

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

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.