Quotes About Band

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted.

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would say we were more funny punk, a lot of songs about food and stuff like that.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

We already do a couple numbers with chairs - chairs being a classic, Bob Fosse-ish, showbizzy prop, but the punk element is that it's just me and Stephanie and this funky band from Austin.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.

Hunx is kind of just, like, a really trashy punk band, honestly.

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not punk pop. But we did, it was our slow jam.

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be: a pop band, definitely, but we've got a rock and punk edge.

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

Doom was one of my favorite crusty punk bands.

I've only ever been in bands where I can be the punk rock guitar player in the band because that's all I want to do. I don't even know if I could do anything else.

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.