“Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.” KindStillsRealizingLosesBandGood Bands Author:Marisha Pessl
“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.” KnowsWritingKindKidsSchoolCausesBrotherBandMy BrotherOutcastWriting Poetry Author:Christina Perri
“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.” PeopleThinkingKindFunStuffInterestingMillionsBandModelsMeetingsClubsDancerBe KindJust BeingBizarreReally InterestingPlayboyGroupie Author:Cassandra Peterson
“If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.” PeopleIfsKindChoicesFiveBrotherBandBoatMy BrotherWiserUmbrellaScorpions Author:Michael Schenker
“When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.” KindLittlesBigsYoungBitsLosesIdentityNeededBandLittle BitGet Away Author:Roger Meddows Taylor
“I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.” ThinkingKindPlayBandSelfishPetPeevesPet Peeve Author:Art Alexakis
“Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.” KindBornBandTenCreatingFestivalsThings I LoveBillboardsGranddaddy Author:Michael Franti
“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 like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.” WayKindStrongBandVisualsBagsShyVisual Images Author:Black Francis
“I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindDifferentUseTermAcceptingStyleInvolvedBandFollowingBrandsDifferent Peoples Author:Geoff Downes
“What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.” KindDoeBandNormalOppositesExcitingSoundtracks Author:Tim Gane
“When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.” KindRocksCollegeBandPostsPunkSixtyStrokesHardcoreRetro Author:Tim Heidecker
“It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.” IfsThinkingWritingKindHardLike YouEasierBandNegativeCriticsReviewsArticles Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.” FirstsKindStillsCollegeListeningOne DayBandThirdsMy FavoriteNostalgiaGradesFourthStanding OutBuddyFourth GradeFavorite Bands Author:Girl Talk
“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.” WorldHeartKindTwoMovingSpeakSoundVoicePowerfulBloodSweetThousandBandInstrumentsNotesGuitarWoodsFleshTonightStringsComposerOrgansGiftedOrchestraChamberHarmoniousHymnsFlesh And BloodPercussionMarching Band Author:Michael Jackson
“Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.” PeopleKindFeelingsBandOppositesSparksIndifferentPolar OppositesPolarizing Author:Ben Gibbard
“I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would say are like - there's a name for many disorders as we know - but I would say, "If I pick this rubber band, then this will happen." It was that kind of want to control things, which I think all kids have to some extent.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantKindHappensKidsNamesSeriousBandPicksDisorderRubberRubber Bands Author:Carla Gugino
“I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.” KindWholeWantedRocksBandSingingWhole LifeDoubtedRock Bands Author:Bert McCracken
“I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindStillsActorsKnow HowKeysSceneBandApproachMusicianJazzCastsCome UpMediocreGood ActorsDifferentiateEnsembleJazz Band Author:Wesley Snipes
“I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.” ThinkingKindBandCome UpSense Of HumorHamWhimsy Author:Michael McKean
“I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.” KindRunningWantedRomancePerfectAchieveExampleFieldsTypeBandMountainAspectFolksWoodsForestsObsessedBoardsCanadaLakesCountrysideFolkloreFolk MusicElectronic MusicWoods And Forests Author:Ellie Goulding
“Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.” PeopleKindMightRocksBandKansasRock Bands Author:Phil Ehart
“I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.” KindGirlBoysBandHip HopHipsHopsKind Of GirlBoy BandsGirl I Like Author:Bella Thorne
“There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.” PeopleKindTwoGuyCreativeMiddleTypeTasteBandProjectsDrivingShipsSoloCreative PeopleAlong For The Ride Author:Patrick Stump
“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.” WritingKindMadeEndsPlayKidsWantedThreeTermInterestCreativityRocksBandDecidedSingersNeighborhoodRock Bands Author:Dennis Cooper
“A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.” IfsThinkingKindLongSometimesHardHelpingBigsMightTogetherSoundTermBandDown AndLong TermThemeEnduranceBankingShowing UpLong Term Relationship Author:Rob Delaney
“I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.” ThinkingKindLittlesSoundBandAddBassDistortion Author:Nikki Sixx
“I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.” PeopleKindSchoolFatherSawsNew YorkBandMountainEarsJazzBoringFestivalsChordsGreat MusicCarolinaUneducatedNorth CarolinaTenorsMusic And DanceBanjosJazz BandAsheville Author:Pete Seeger
“When I was a teenager in a band playing, everything was great. I still don't feel any different. I still wake up with the same love and passion as when I did this with the band. Because my life in music has let me live the kind of life that I've loved, and I've been able to share it with others and take care of the people I love.” PeopleFeelsKindStillsDifferentCareAblePassionShareBandLet MeWake UpTake CareTeenagerLove And PassionSame Love Author:Frank Wildhorn
“I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.” ThinkingYearsFirstsKindLongTwoSometimesYoungGrowsGrowing UpPathWeekMetsBandHusbandLong TimeGladMy HusbandTwo WeeksVery CoolTime To Grow Up Author:Natascha McElhone
“The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.” PeopleKindPlayWonderfulBandBenefitsGratefulGood ThingsEnormousWonderful ThingsSantaSanta Claus Author:Mickey Hart
“I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.” KindRocksBandFemaleGreenMalesSingersAll KindsPunkRock MusicPunk RockRock BandsFemale Singers Author:Avril Lavigne
“I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.” KindPersonsLongHas BeensStillsHardPlayTogetherPastNightSongInterestBandLong TimeGloryTradeDecadesBoredHatsMy PastHats Off Author:Paul Weller
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!” YearsKindHas BeensTwoArtistWishBloodInvolvedBandMy FamilyHendrix Author:Earl Monroe
“To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.” KindWholeGenerationsFansBandClassicDiscoveringAppreciated Author:Scott Weiland
“I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.” PeopleThinkingWantKindUnitedSupportMissingBandTiredSticksAll KindsPriestsCategoriesMetalsAcceptableI'm TiredMaidensVenomSlayerDeath MetalBreaking Things Author:Chuck Schuldiner
“Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.” PeopleKindMomentsInterestDecisionInterestingRecordsCollegeBandHandleManagersLabelsRecord LabelsEarly 20s Author:Noah Baumbach
“They call it collective energy. It's that same feeling that you get when you meditate amongst a ton of people. What actually makes the festival feel so special is that while you're watching a band or an artist, you're standing there, kind of feeling the same feeling with so many people in such a small space and that gives you collective energy. It's that kind of strange feeling in which you almost feel people breathing.” PeopleGivingFeelsKindFeelingsArtistEnergySpaceSpecialStrangeBandStandingBreathingCollectivesFestivalsStanding ThereSmall Spaces Author:Chelsea Leyland
“I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.” PeopleKindWholeBandMalesMainstreamBikinisDocumentation Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.” ThinkingKindGuyStuffSawsFrontsChangedBandBabeSticker Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldKindI CanHandsAbleStuffBandBeamLasers Author:Wayne Coyne
“We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.” WantKindUsedSceneBandUsed To BeYoutubeStigma Author:Chrissy Costanza
“Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.” KnowsKindPlayFunFrontsHugeBandCrowdsWho We AreFestivals Author:Mac DeMarco
“Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.” KindGuyCarBandEngland Author:Alice Cooper
“I was a good student but I was also one of those people that could not got to class and then the day before the exam stay up all night (studying), which I do not recommend doing. But that's more the kind of thing you do when you're younger and you're in college in a band and wanted to party, too.” PeopleKindWantedNightPartyClassStudyStudentsCollegeBandAll NightExamUp All NightGood Students Author:Jeff Kendrick
“I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.” PeopleWantKindReasonWantedBornSecretComedyBandMy FriendsGuitarComedianArchitectPursuedVeterinarian Author:Tig Notaro
“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.” PeopleKnowsWritingKindWantedSchoolCertainSongClassNovelCreativeRocksCollegeBandUniversityBarsRock And RollCreative WritingGreat AmericanFraternityTop 10SyracuseClasses In School Author:Lou Reed
“We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.” KindSongLinesAudienceModernRocksBandElementsCrossesEnjoyedAppealsVisualsBarriersGapsPortionsRock And RollModern Music Author:Andy Biersack
“By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.” KindLastsChangedBandStudiosChemistryThrillWaltz Author:Levon Helm