“If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.” IfsEndsHateAsksStupidBandJournalistFedsAgain And AgainYou AgainFed UpStupid Questions Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsReasonHateTermBrainRocksStupidEmotionalBandHonestlyGenrePunkRobotsCommonplacePunk RockRock BandsRetardedGenericEmoGenres Of Music Author:Guy Picciotto
“Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?” KnowsFeelsSelfTogetherHateSongStrongGrowsRocksParticularExpressionInvolvedBandElementsI HateSelf ExpressionGuitaristRock BandsStrong Together Author:David First
“In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.” WayHardPainCertainHateMy OwnEmotionComedyHigherDramaBandShopsCeilings Author:Matthew McConaughey
“Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!” ThinkingWellsHateMy OwnBandBirdEmsFlipHate MeOh WellWimps Author:Black Francis
“When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.” PeopleIfsWantMindDoeHateCultureWinningEffortSceneBandBlowPopsGoing AwayDivisionRebelMainstreamPop CultureCan't Win Author:Laura Jane Grace
“There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.” HateSongBandVideo Author:Chuck D
“We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.” PeopleHateBand Author:Sam Endicott
“Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.” MeanHateWhiteBandI HateAwfulChicagoBoogieHowlin Wolf Author:Tom Verlaine
“We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.” HateBandStonesRoseNo Hate Author:Ian Brown
“I hate the attitude of, 'oh we already have a Lydia Lunch, so we do we need a Bikini Kill.' Well, there's like 2 hundered million all-male bands writting 'baby baby I love you, let me drag you around on my ankle.' Is that enough already? Duh!” NeedsWellsEnoughHateAttitudeMillionsLove YouBabyBandLet MeI HateMalesLunchDragAnklesBikinisDuhEnough AlreadyI Love You Baby Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.” KnowsKindHateSpaceBandI HateStuckDragJust Being Author:Dave Grohl
“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
“I always hate people that complain about showbiz after they've had a good run. To me there are so many great bands that never get their due, that are struggling away. And I'm like, if you hit the lottery, man, you can't expect it to come around every time.” PeopleIfsMenRunningHateStruggleBandDuesComplainingLotteryHate PeopleShowbiz Author:Miles Zuniga
“I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasHateGamesRealizingBoysLike YouBandPicksAdultsHungerMailOne DirectionBoy BandsHate Mail Author:Joel Stein
“I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.” ThinkingHateRecordsBandI Hate Author:Alex Scally
“Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.” HandsHateBlackWhiteWalksBandGenreMetalsHand In HandBlack MetalWhite Power Author:Blake Judd
“I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.” ThinkingTryingHateBlackRecordsFailingBandEssenceClassicMetalsBlack MetalGloaming Author:Mat McNerney
“I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)” MeanPlayHateEmotionalBandSingingI HateCodeIronMetalsAdoreMaidensIron Maiden Author:Mat McNerney
“We had to do something at [a festival in Washington, D.C.]. I remember Chris Martin, by then we all knew him, there were certain people who were regulars. He would say, "Oh, my God, you guys, I think I'm going to throw up." It was a daytime festival, and they went on right after some really heavy band, and he was saying, "I don't think I can do this. I think I'm going to throw up." He was in the bathroom thinking he was going to be sick. He said, "They're going to hate us." In fact, they hated them. They hated Coldplay - did not go over well. His instincts were correct.” PeopleThinkingWellsSaidI CanFactsRememberGuyCertainHateCan DoBandSickInstinctHeavyHatedBathroomFestivalsDaytimeI Can Do This Author:Jancee Dunn
“I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.” WantHateSupportTeamFootballBandSpeechRacistOffensiveFootball TeamHate Speech Author:Simon Tam