“It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.” KnowsYearsKindGivenStrangeBandTenPassingPassingsTouring Author:Ryan Jarman
“You are always kind of suspicious that there's a better life out there for you no matter what it is - and obviously being in a band for me was always what I wanted to do, it's the only thing that I can do, it's the only thing that gets me up in the morning, but you can't help but wonder what else you'd be doing if you weren't in the band.” IfsKindI CanMatterHelpingWantedCan DoWonderMorningBandNo Matter WhatBetter LifeSuspiciousI Can Do It Author:Ryan Jarman
“We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.” PeopleKindPlayAsksBandAsk MeMetalsMetal Band Author:Mattew Nicholls
“We've got the best kind of parents for us, in this situation. My parents are super supportive of me and really into our band. They get just as excited as we do, about stuff that we do. So, it's pretty cool.” KindStuffParentSituationBandExcitedSupportive Author:Mattew Nicholls
“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs, because they were determining how they needed to lock in together, and Stella was still kind of learning and figuring out her parts.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindStillsTwoImportantTogetherSongWeekNeededBandLaysNotesAlbumsWorthyLocksBassTwo WeeksStellaDrum And Bass Author:Theresa Wayman
“Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind of change things every time, play on the floor, set up in the middle of the room. They go in and they reinvent the space every time, which I feel is like the kind of thing that should just be happening.” FeelsShouldKindPlayArtistSpaceRoomsMiddleBandHappeningsLightningBlankBoltsVenuesGenericLightning BoltsBlank Space Author:Will Oldham
“The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.” KindBigsWantedStarsStuffBandPopsErasCaliforniaAlabamaStardustMona Lisa Author:Carl Gardner
“Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.” KnowsKindLittlesDreamSongRolesBandGuitarBonesTraditionalProducersRhythmPianoStringsSectionsToolboxRhythm SectionGuitar Strings Author:Mark Ronson
“The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.” PeopleNeedsFeelsBelieveKindStillsI BelieveStuffBornBandPerformingThis DayPerformersOld PeopleTouch Me Author:Ginuwine
“I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.” YearsKindTwoBoysBrotherGrewBandGrew UpAll KindsTwo BrothersBagpipes Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.” KindStillsMatterFactsShowsGuyStuffRecordsFeetRocksMinesBandBlindAlbumsSellingFantasticPerformingDozenGood FriendRock And RollMikeTouringMatter Of FactWoodyAnimositySecond BestGreat GuyLizzy Author:Reed Mullin
“We're doing all the shows as an eight-piece band. There's so many different kinds of palettes for each film that we've had to find a balance of musicians who can shift from one instrument to another to make all those sounds for us come to life.” KindDifferentShowsFilmSoundPiecesBalanceBandMusicianInstrumentsEightDifferent KindsPalette Author:Stuart A. Staples
“For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.” KindImportantOne ThingBandBe Kind Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“I certainly didn't predict people who spent years actively disliking the band to all of a sudden like the band. That's pretty funny to me, and it makes playing live kind of interesting, 'cos we're doing lots of things that don't really have a lot to do with that record, and even presenting the songs off that record in a way that's a little more muscular and without as much of the sheen, which is what I think part of what people really liked [about Kaputt].” PeopleThinkingWayYearsKindLittlesSongInterestingRecordsBandPresenting Author:Dan Bejar
“I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.” FirstsKindShowsRecordsCoupleInvolvedBandConversationMembersMassYeahMovedStudiosBars Author:Dan Bejar
“I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.” KindWantedUsedDivineFitBandAestheticEdited Author:John Britt Daniel
“I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.” ThinkingKindMayBigsRememberSongWinningHalfBandDerby Author:Beck
“I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.” IfsKnowsNeedsGivingShouldLooksKindSongSoundMy OwnBandLimitationCartoonGarageAssignments Author:Beck
“When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.” KindYoungBlackBandIronSabbathMaidensBlack SabbathIron Maiden Author:David Pajo
“I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away.” ThinkingWantKindBandBlowOpeningHeadlines Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.” IfsKindWould BeAbleWantedStuffSpacePracticeWorryFiguresBandStolenGood PlaceLouisville Author:David Pajo
“I saw an article where the manager of the Pussycat Dolls, which is kind of this like striptease band, girl band, said, oh well, the girls are totally third-wave feminist. This is what third-wave feminism is about. Like you don't get to use that word. You don't get to say that something is feminist as a way to sell back sexism to women, as a way to further consumerist ideas.” WayWellsKindSaidIdeasUseGirlSawsFeminismLike YouBandThirdsSellsWaveFeministManagersSexismArticlesDollsOh Well Author:Jessica Valenti
“When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.” KindSongRocksBandSingingJazzSingersTeenagerHolidayOperaRock And RollMysticalJuneLethargyDowntroddenOpera SingersCallas Author:Patti Smith
“I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.” IfsKnowsWayTryingKindUseSeemsSongDifferencesOpinionFiguresTasteBand Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.” KindThreeMonthsBandExcitingJoiningComposingThree MonthsExciting Things Author:James Iha
“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
“We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.” WritingKindSongOrderBandPicksAlbumsAbundance Author:John Petrucci
“I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.” TryingKindWhiteAttentionPiecesFourBandSingersCompetingPhenomenalViewpoints Author:Robert Plant
“Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.” KindBandBlueTransformedCommittees Author:Fred Armisen
“I think in its own small way, it did push people to be more accepting of different kinds of music. It definitely made music more egalitarian in terms of, it took away the shame of the goofy bands that you liked.” PeopleThinkingWayKindMadeDifferentTermAcceptingBandShameDifferent KindsGoofyDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Jancee Dunn
“Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.” KindStillsFourInfluenceChangedYouthCollegeTasteBandGang Author:Page Hamilton
“It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."” PeopleTryingKindSaidHelpingKidsRememberHeardBandSixLateWake UpHearingHeyTapeFadsComaFavorite BandsHearing Things Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.” KnowsKindLittlesWantedNamesLeftBandLionsBabeAvant GardeBlondie Author:Jillian Hervey
“I like all of the typical hard rock bands. I'm an AC/DC fanatic. I love ZZ Top, just about any Van Halen, any Judas Priest, the list goes on and on, most of the Iron Maiden stuff. Those are the big bands, but I got my feel from, I grew up on Mountain and Humble Pie. That kind of stuff is where I get my feel from.” FeelsKindHardBigsStuffRocksGrewGoes OnBandMountainGrew UpHumbleListsIronPriestsPieTypicalVansFanaticsMaidensRock BandsJudasVan HalenHard RockIron MaidenHumble PieJudas Priest Author:Mark Mendoza
“When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band together, which is a rhythm section, really. I used to do a lot of blues, and rhythm and blues, and '50s rock 'n' roll and country, and all kinds of stuff.” KindCountryTogetherUsedStuffRocksBandGuitarAll KindsRhythmRock N RollSectionsWalesRhythm And BluesRhythm Section Author:Tom Jones
“When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.” KnowsKindGuyGirlThreeMorningDoorsWalkingBandKnockingMacsGroove Author:Chrissie Hynde
“My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.” WantKindLongBigsWantedLastsMotherFatherStuffParentRocksBandGuitarDancerWant MeRock N RollViolin Author:Mark Alan Stamaty
“We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ass for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.” IfsKnowsWantKindMeanPainGuySongCareersHeardHugeLike YouGoes OnCoupleBandAssPhoenixSweetheart Author:Mac DeMarco
“[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as the anti-christ. This is all in The Necronomicon, something Lovecraft actually did make up.” KindHomeChristSpaceCitiesGoneProgressPaintingBandRealmsPointingThrustOuter SpaceWorshippersExtraterrestrialLovecraftAnti Christ Author:Paul Laffoley
“Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.” KnowsWorldKindUsedLanguageNationsAttitudeChangedBandEuropeStartingPopsFranceGermanyBritainEmpiresPop Music Author:James Dean Bradfield
“There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you know, you're going to stay in touch with 'em, it's not the same, you know? The band kind of breaks up.” PeopleKnowsKindFeelingsHouseCausesWhiteBreakTeamBandLeavingEmsWhite HouseBittersweet Author:Barack Obama
“I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.” MenKindWholePlayerSweetBandJazzTenorsBrunchBasilKind Man Author:Jon Gordon