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Quotes About Band

When you're in a band you can stay a teenager for years; my mood was determined by what number we were in the charts.
~ Martin Kemp
Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.
~ Josh Klinghoffer
Seven years as a band may seem like a long time, but we were teenagers when we started.
~ Luke Hemmings
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
~ Kanye West
The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues' by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the start of jazz as a legitimate branch of music.
~ David Hepworth
This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!
~ Terry Kath
Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.
~ Michael Schenker
Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.
~ Wim Wenders
One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.
~ Chris Cornell
I've been trying my whole life to get to this point, and it's finally here. It's an amazing record, and it happens to be with Stone Temple Pilots. I mean, what could be better than that?
~ Jeff Gutt
Any time I'm trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosmith records. 'Love in an Elevator,' 'Rag Doll,' all that stuff was really great music. It's something that I still dig and go back and listen to.
~ Chris Young
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.
~ Illinois Jacquet
The crowd screamed, and in the same instant the band whammed into Lady like a desperate man into a ten-dollar prostitute.
~ Leigh Riker
Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.
~ Libba Bray
The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.
~ Libba Bray
I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
~ Amy Lee
If only there were a band of Burkian conservatives out there who were engaged in culture and were committed to a Kuyperian version of historic Reformed practice, if only there were something like that.
~ Douglas Wilson
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
~ Dweezil Zappa
The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
~ Ray Manzarek
The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
~ Doris Day
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
~ Dave Grohl
But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.
~ Peter Frampton
They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.
~ Jim Capaldi