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Quotes About Band

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.
~ Aaron Dessner
I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying to learn how to play guitar. I was really frustrated because I couldn't strum, and then I saw Susannah Hoffs do this cool strum on a song, and it was my goal after that to learn how to do that strum.
~ Kim Shattuck
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
~ Phil Lesh
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
~ Stevie Jackson
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.
~ Ric Ocasek
Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.
~ Chris Slade
I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.
~ Alex Lifeson
We've got the pretty-boy lead singer and the fat, dumpy drummer, and I'm the zany guitarist. Sure, we've played up the image at times. But it's the music that matters most.
~ Rick Nielsen
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
~ Lou Reed
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
~ Lou Reed
I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff on guitar and said, 'Do they sound like this?' And they did.
~ Curt Smith
Dawes is a rock 'n' roll band playing guitars, writing songs, working in a certain tradition. Through our attitude and personality, I hope, you can hear a song and go, 'That's a Dawes song.'
~ Taylor Goldsmith
I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
~ Sebastian Bach
Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
~ Patrick Stump
I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.
~ M. Shadows
For a frontman of a band, good hair is a requisite.
~ Mick Hucknall
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
~ Win Butler
I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in the band, I even did the mascot senior year... I went to the football games, and at half-time I went across the field, met all the cheerleaders and got their numbers! The same year, I won prom king!
~ Elijah Kelley
I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
~ Ike Turner
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
~ Irvine Welsh
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
~ Chick Corea
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
~ Gary Cherone