“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsKindHardCoursesIndividualRolesBandBigger Author:Stone Gossard
“I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.” CoursesBandBirdMy FavoriteBritishInvasionZeppelinsKinkFavorite BandsStoogesBritish Invasion Author:John Varvatos
“We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.” YearsLittlesEndsAmericaCoursesSpeakNationsPrideBandGloryYears AgoDeedsAdmirationOdds Author:Ronald Reagan
“Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter.” WantTwoWisdomRememberThreeCoursesIndividualAnswersLibertyForeverBandSixSlaveStrikesChainsEveningTeaPostsQuartersI Want YouSaturdayWagesSaturday EveningWage Slaves Author:Groucho Marx
“There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.” ThinkingMenWayPlayYoungCoursesOpportunityForceBandGuitarTechniqueYoung ManDrummerPhenomenalZeppelins Author:Jimmy Page
“Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.” SpiritCoursesReligiousCareersRolesCasesMilitaryIdentityBandArmyMovedTrainSurfaceScalesLocalsPostsRebellionTroopsSimilarityMonarchsMilitiaForgedCharismaticEthosCromwellAmerican IdentityCharles I Author:Garry Wills
“I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.” DreamTurnsCoursesSoundDoorsBandMilesFiftyMelancholyMiles AwayNuisanceBrassBagpipesBrass Bands Author:Thomas Beecham
“I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.” FeelsHas BeensHappensAbleCoursesSocialGrowthMy OwnEffectsBandConcernedLifetimePatternsMarchEmergingRubberChange And GrowthRubber Bands Author:LeVar Burton
“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.” KnowsReasonWholeThreeCoursesCareersRecordsBandThirdsQuittingTerrifiedSoloMacsGreat WritersFleetwood Mac Author:Stevie Nicks
“But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five people in the band, um, you've got no keyboards... you're limited. And I wanted... to go over-the-top, you know. Literally. I wanted to make an album that people would either hate or love.” PeopleKnowsWantedHateCoursesStuffFiveBandAlbumsMetalsTheatricalKeyboardsOver The TopMetal Band Author:Arjen Anthony Lucassen
“It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones. 'Trane took me aside, and, of course, we did Blue Trane, which was my first album-and that started everything. He had confidence that I didn't have; he saw something that I didn't see.” FirstsWellsCoursesSawsNew YorkBandBlueAlbumsMilesChamberColtrane Author:Curtis Fuller
“Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going to be a bluegrass band, but I guess when Peter left Bill Monroe he had had enough of bluegrass. He had written some songs and of course the Beatles were a big influence back then. So, we decided to something different and it ended up being that.” WellsDifferentEnoughBigsFormSongCoursesLeftPlansWrittenInfluenceBandDecidedBillsPeterHad EnoughBluegrass Author:David Grisman
“I have a feeling that the kids are slowly returning to the roots, with this new Metal trend. I can really feel there are a lot of exciting young bands doing kinds of underground Metal, which of course is a lot more dirty than the stuff that we do, but I like it all the same.” FeelsKindI CanFeelingsKidsYoungCoursesStuffBandRootsExcitingDirtyTrendsMetals Author:Yenz Leonhardt
“Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.” IfsHeartI CanPlayRememberCoursesBandSafeSpreadYesterdayExcitementCollectionsBedroomCollectingCollectorsCigarHeart Pounding Author:Edward G. Robinson
“Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.” PeopleIfsHas BeensPlayNightCoursesAsksKnownRecordsPlayerBandLatePreparedExecutivesGuestsKeyboardsKeyboard Players Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.” PeopleDifferentTogetherCoursesWhiteInfluenceBandHopefullyElbowsLennon Author:Billy Boyd
“Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.” WritingWellsShowsCoursesEnjoyBandPerformersWrite Your Own Author:Dia Frampton
“It was very controversial actually, because basically, Lion In The Grass was also a course that you were receiving college credit for. So it was like he was taking a class, but then the class which also has a teacher and everything, was competing with bands that weren't in classes.” CoursesClassTeacherCollegeBandCreditGrassLionsReceivingCompetingControversial Author:Chris Baio
“Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.” ThinkingBigsCoursesFireParticularBandLogicFollowingTendenciesThemeParadesFollow ThroughArcadesArcade Fire Author:Dan Bejar
“Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.” ThinkingWayImportantRunningCoursesHalfTakenBandUnhappyTreatedTollsAndrewDuos Author:George Michael