Quotes About Band

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

We are nervous before every concert. I think we are the most nervous band in the world.

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.

People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

The band I was in, Soul Survivor, moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and tried real hard for two years.

When you're co-leading a band with someone whose career is bigger than your own, like with my wife Susan, it's different. You have to agree on things musically. It took months for it to come together.

Formerly known as The Muslims, The Soft Pack brings a lot of swagger to its garage-rock sound. There's a load of gimmick-free confidence in the band's hooks, as its distorted guitars and driving drums demonstrate that less can be more.

We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

We tracked 'Domestic Sweater' live as a full band. It had been a while since we had even performed so in doing so, a sweet innocence arose, as though we were playing in our garage again.

I think when we started we were just four dudes from school and we did all the sweaty pub gigs.

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!