Quotes About Band

I would advise any new young band to get good, independent legal advice before signing anything.

Angus and I had silent dreams about playing in a band since we were kids, always playing our guitars and listening to records.

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London.

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.

We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard core bands like Bad Brains, not that we sounded like them but we were trying to play as hard and fast as we could.

U2 happens to be one of the world's most celebrated bands of all time, and they have influenced my own music and playlists growing up. In fact, when I was in college, I won a singing competition with a U2 song.

I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

Pantera is one of our biggest influences, as it should be for anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll.

When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going.

I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.

In terms of content and instrumentation, I feel we have been extremely ambitious on every one of our albums going back to high school. We were the first screaming hardcore band to put a big ballad on our record.

I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.