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“Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.”

People Ifs Littles Important Names Sound Loses Imagine Thousand Band Important Things Series Forty Associates Unison

Author:Brian Molko

“I'm glad I was never in a band.”

Band Glad

Author:Leona Lewis

“When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.”

Years Firsts Kids Young Band

Author:Justin Broadrick

“I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.”

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Author:Daniel Rossen

“I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.”

Want Wells Kind Modern Rocks Taste Band Music Is Appreciate Guitar Pops Alternatives Garage Grunge Personal Taste Alternative Music

Author:Al Yankovic

“I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.”

Feels I Can Enough Guy Found Careers Nice Band Musician Good Things Rap Genre Fortunate Nice Guy Gangsta Polka Gangsta Rap

Author:Al Yankovic

“It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.”

Needs Difficult My Own Path Player Rocks Band My Friends I Realized Teenager Rock Bands Accordions

Author:Al Yankovic

“I think our particular sound has come by just not adhering to any specific sound. For us, it's about the song, and being able to fit in to what is appropriate. When we sit down, we're not talking about what type of band we're gonna be within a specific genre - there's a uniqueness to all of us individually that throws putting anything in a box out the window.”

Thinking Able Song Sound Talking Particular Type Fit Band Window Boxes Genre Appropriate Uniqueness Not Talking

Author:Nate Ruess

“From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.”

Age Young Taken Stage Band Ambition Musician Young Age Pursued

Author:Cillian Murphy

“That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.”

People Ifs Way Trying Moving Song Fighting Simple Identity Band Members Rivers Pops Great Things Gang Bangs Keep Moving Pop Song Gang Members

Author:Torquil Campbell

“I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.”

People May Persons Has Beens Wanted Band Amy

Author:Torquil Campbell

“Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledge loss. We're not trying to win. We're not trying to project victory. You win alone. I'm not interested in singing for the one winner in the room; I'm interested in singing for all of the losers in the room.”

Trying Mean Winning Stars Loses Loss Rooms Victory Band Projects Singing Winner Acknowledge Theme Loser Punk Not Interested

Author:Torquil Campbell

“We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.”

People Kind Bigs Beautiful Fate Plans Band Like Me Uncool Cool People

Author:Torquil Campbell

“We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.”

Trying Song Decision Fashion Havens Changed Huge Taste Band Structure Executing

Author:Torquil Campbell

“I don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time.”

Thinking Knows Said Different Clear Influence Planets Band Responsible Holes Slits Courtney

Author:Ari Up

“I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.”

Thinking Way Children Different Sometimes Able School Actors Easy Band Profession Innocent Soccer Different Things Easy Way Child Actors

Author:Michiel Huisman

“In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play grindcore or be in a scream-o band, so it was fun to finally have that experience of having my songs backed by a drummer and a bassist who were just as excited about it as I was.”

Play Wanted School Guy Song Fun Band High School Excited Scream Bass Drummer Bassists

Author:Weyes Blood

“There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it turns out in the end. Even the smallest things. You don't want to really acknowledge that, because you want to believe that you are the only creative asset as a director. You want to believe you're the only one. But I really feel that everyone teams up and everybody really affects everything. Actually, it's the closest I will get to playing in a band.”

Way Want Feels Believe Different Ends Film Turns Creative Team Band Directors Direct One Way Acknowledge Different Ways Assets Closest Smallest

Author:Lukas Moodysson

“I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.”

I Can Band Singers

Author:Taryn Manning

“As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.”

Trying My Own Grew Please Band Grew Up Nostalgia Sensibility Basements Hardcore

Author:Geoff Rickly

“I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.”

Littles Bigs Kids School Three Sound Behinds College Band Creating Little Kid Drummer Elementary School

Author:AraabMuzik

“I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.”

People Feels Able Night Audience Comedy Rocks Fronts Like You Band Hundred Get Up Every Night Circuits Rock Bands

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.”

Want Dream Records Band

Author:Steve Albini

“Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.”

Ifs Guy Team Rocks Football Proud Drug Band Mess Uniforms Football Team Rock Bands

Author:Gene Simmons

“When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.”

House Doors Band Computer Window Drunk Teenager Locks Typical Lit Tents

Author:Robert David Steele

“I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'”

Light Wanted Records Band Stores Coffee Boss Sadistic Record Stores Iguanas

Author:Iggy Pop

“If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.”

People Ifs Wells Whole Heard Band Army Intelligent Accomplish Defeated

Author:Sakya Pandita

“The Doors really were a band of potheads.”

Doors Band Potheads

Author:Ray Manzarek

“The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.”

Ifs Enjoy Military Listening Band Mood Rhythm Tunes Positively Upbeat Marching Band

Author:Liz Miller

“These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.”

Reality Government Band Organized Murderer Robbers

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons”

Thinking Way Artist Pay Behinds Rich Five Rocks Band Window Selling Producers Managers Mates Splits Drummer Cds Rock Bands Platinum Drive Thru

Author:Steven Page

“I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.”

Wanted Too Much Band Mess Music Love I Love Music

Author:Elijah Wood

“For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations.”

People Thinking Want Ideas Different Done Three Can Do Imagination Situation Records Four Band Married

Author:Mark Oliver Everett

“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."”

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Author:Lizzo

“Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Certain Can Do Band Praise Punk Influential Hanging Around Lemmings

Author:Boy George

“To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.”

Play Band

Author:Steve Martin

“You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.”

Knows Play Moments College Listening Band Towns Moved Pops Weather Reports Classical Music Pop Music Sixteen Fraternity Vermont Wedding Band

Author:Stuart Hamm

“The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.”

Ifs Song Changed Band January Rehearsing

Author:James Iha

“Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.”

People Whole Band Respect Each Other

Author:Eliot Lewis

“I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'”

Different Facts Would Be Jobs Night Song Behinds Possibility Duty Easier One Day Band Singing Response Singers Backgrounds Hey Restaurants Vocal Gigs Drummer Default

Author:Chris Cornell

“Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.”

Should Artist Band Manage Managers Own Business

Author:Art Alexakis

“Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Self Helping Suffering Virtue Self Esteem Band Should Have Albums Singers Esteem Arrogant Ignored Should Have Been Just Listen Quirky Heretic High Self Esteem

Author:Julian Gough

“Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.”

Faces Band Oppression Abolitionist Wilberforce

Book:God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics

Source: God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics

“I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people - as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.”

People Thinking Men Mean Long Doe Problem Seems Party Millions Figures Movement Band Democratic Democrat Conservative Making Money Followers Incentives Democratic Party Charlatans

Author:Ann Coulter

“Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.”

Belief Band Worship Contrary Coffee Fancy Shops Pastor Jeans Skinny Millennials Coffee Shop Contrary To Popular Belief Skinny Jeans

Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo, though I never obviously got into any activities. I was writing 'IRA, Brits out' on walls all over where I grew up, but that was a false sense of Irishness.”

Writing Black Wall Arms Grew Activity Band Grew Up Died Hunger March Brits Ira Strikers Wearing Black

Author:Glen Hansard

“When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.”

Bits Attitude Band Clothes Yeah Grunge

Author:Ringo Starr

“Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!”

Two Next Names Hours Mines Band Ass Evening Good Evening

Author:Robbie Williams

“The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.”

Band Brown

Author:Doris Day

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