“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.” IdeasSongBehindsPlayerRocksBandGloryConceptsRock And RollDiggingRaggedCassettes Author:Krist Novoselic
“My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.” TryingMeanStillsRealDoneEyeSongBehindsFocusBandThoughtful Author:Ian MacKaye
“True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans.” EnoughBehindsFansLuckyBandSticksThickThick And ThinThrough Thick And Thin Author:Johnny Christ
“I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.” PeopleYearsStillsI CanPlayHelpingBehindsFrontsBandHundredHarderGuitarShouldersNervousOver YouBehind YouAcousticsAcoustic GuitarBombastic Author:Robin Zander
“I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.” WantTwoRunningStrongWaitingBehindsWeekBandLegsStoresContactChickensBootsTapeUniformsCoatsLensesImpatienceTwo WeeksGroceriesRegisterParadesGrocery StoresShoppersRestroomContact LensesTassels Book:I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
“Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.” SometimesBehindsCoupleBandSingingSevenChaosCrowdsSeconds Author:Rob Zombie
“we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.” PeopleNeedsBigsJobsBehindsPlayerBandGuitarIrelandParadesGuitar PlayerBrassWhistlingBrass Bands Book:Self-portrait Source: Self-portrait
“When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.” FeelsPlayMomentsFeelingsGuySongPassionSoundBehindsParticularHugeBandMountainWaveDrivingNineSurfingBehind YouLarger Than Life Author:Jason Mraz
“I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.” PlayBehindsRocksBandDrummerBasicsRock BandsBack To Basics Author:Rick Astley
“I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are more afraid to make the choices that they want because they're very hard decisions to make in order to be happy. I think a lot of people are really afraid of that. It's easy to be in a band because you have a lot of things to hide behind so that's really not always living...that doesn't always constitute as living life the way you want. But at times you have to make decisions that sometimes hurt others in order to live.” PeopleThinkingWayWantSometimesHardOrderDiesChoicesEasyHurtDecisionBehindsBandLive LifeHard Decision Author:Gerard Way
“Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.” MenSelfHardFacesBehindsPersonalityShapesBandOriginalsIllnessPossessionMythMental IllnessMaskStableShiftingInner SelfRubberDisturbanceNuggetsSnappingRubber Bands Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the idea behind it and the idea of helping people, but I feel you help people more by exposing yourself.” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingPersonsIdeasHardHelpingBehindsMetsBandHelping PeopleExposingExposing YourselfTrying Really Hard Author:Andy Biersack
“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.” LittlesBigsKidsSchoolThreeSoundBehindsCollegeBandCreatingLittle KidDrummerElementary School Author:AraabMuzik
“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” ThinkingWayArtistPayBehindsRichFiveRocksBandWindowSellingProducersManagersMatesSplitsDrummerCdsRock BandsPlatinumDrive Thru Author:Steven Page
“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!'” DifferentFactsWould BeJobsNightSongBehindsPossibilityDutyEasierOne DayBandSingingResponseSingersBackgroundsHeyRestaurantsVocalGigsDrummerDefault Author:Chris Cornell
“I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.” SongStuffBehindsPiecesBandMusicianMatesRhymeGreat TimesNurseryCredibleNursery Rhymes Author:Tom Felton
“I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.” ThinkingShouldMeanWholeBehindsBandConceptsStoryteller Author:Kirk Hammett
“If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play” PeopleIfsWorldEndsPlayBehindsBandEncouragementDestroyedThrownSwim Author:Rick Allen
“It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.” TryingPlayHelpingBigsBehindsBandBeatsCleanJazzNotesSteadyBig ThingsFlexibleContinuityBops Author:Charlie Parker
“I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.” StillsMovingBehindsBandDirectGuitarPianoGet BetterTrapped Author:Carole King
“Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.” LittlesImportantShowsWantedDifficultBehindsHalfRecordsOur LivesWifeSceneLuckyQuietBandSmartGuitarPartnersChecksLike MeBehind The ScenesVery SmartGuitar Music Author:Johnny Marr
“Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.” WorldFactsPainNationsBehindsBandEndureScaredJewPsychologicalStrongestNaziUnclesAuntAunts And Uncles Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of my songs to a whole new level. I wouldn't say I really change what I do but, having those talented musicians behind me, along with my band, really makes the songs so much bigger and more fun to sing.” WholeSongFunLevelsBehindsLuckyBandMusicianBiggerAddOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasTalented Musicians Author:Olivia Newton-John
“I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.” KindPersonsBehindsStageSceneBandComfortableRealisedComposingBehind The ScenesAntisocialSeclusion Author:Cliff Martinez
“Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.” NeedsTryingTwoCausesBehindsStyleBandConflictMusicianJazzSingersTunesSongwritersSinger SongwritersBallads Author:Van Morrison