Best Band Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Jon Lord

“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”

Knows Writing Play Song Stage Band

Author:Adam Levine

“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”

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Author:Mike McCready

“At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.”

Moments Listening Band Dave Matthew

Author:Nancy McKeon

“The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.”

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Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.”

Band Productions Clubs California Session Jam Demos Northern California

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.”

Trying Break Band Contemporary Release Make Or Break

Author:Thurston Moore

“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!”

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Author:Zayn Malik

“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.”

Nice Band

Author:Jason Newsted

“I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.”

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Author:Jason Newsted

“Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.”

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Author:Krist Novoselic

“No band is special, no player royalty.”

Player Special Band Royalty

Author:Krist Novoselic

“It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.”

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Author:Mojo Nixon

“I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.”

Wells Nice Stage Band

Author:Randy Newman

“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.”

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Author:Ed O'Brien

“My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.”

People Jobs Band Babysitting

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”

Thinking Lasts Used Support Cost Band Paid Our Family Fund Gigs Misfits

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.”

Years Certain Band Myth

Author:Karen O

“Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.”

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Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.”

Knows Play Night Song Know How Band Every Night

Author:Grant-Lee Phillips

“Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.”

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Author:Vanessa Lengies

“I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.”

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Author:Greg Laswell

“There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.”

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Author:Gerald Caiafa

“We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.”

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Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.”

Knows Writing Kind Kids School Causes Brother Band My Brother Outcast Writing Poetry

Author:Christina Perri

“A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.”

Guy Band My Friends

Author:Audrina Patridge

“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.”

Trying Band

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.”

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Author:Suzi Quatro

“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Sound Existence Band Mature

Author:Adam Rich

“We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.”

Writing Trying Persons Song Band Just One

Author:Adam Rich

“You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.”

People Want Stuff Deals Support Records Band Labels

Author:Adam Rich

“At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.”

Different Girl Felt Band Hanging Around Indigo

Author:Amy Ray

“But the reality is that we are a folk band.”

Reality Band Folks

Author:Amy Ray

“It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.”

New York Band Expensive

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.”

Bigs Girl Terrible Band Angry Shy Temperament

Author:Jeremy Renner

“When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.”

Form Wish Band Blondie

Author:Joey Ramone

“Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.”

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Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.”

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Author:Anna Sui

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