“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.” SuccessLeftBusinessKnowledgeNew YorkBandLimitsSelf ImprovementUniversityAverageBusiness SuccessMusic Business Author:Alan Greenspan
“When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.” MadeLeftBandMusicianDisappointmentStudiosShouldersBreakupRidingMarsVansCdsVan Halen Author:Sammy Hagar
“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 dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantRealShowsLeftPlansRocksBandReal Things Author:Ronnie Hawkins
“I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.” DoneSchoolJobsLeftBandTrainingUnqualified Author:Alison Moyet
“Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.” ShouldFormLeftLinesBandAss Author:Gene Simmons
“I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.” HardPlaySchoolLeftBandToronto Author:Jake Epstein
“The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.” WorldHumansLooksMayMeanIdeasTurnsChoicesLeftSidesTermInterestNovelTakenBrokenReaderBandMirrorsBarsTitlesSolemnOutlinesDistortionSinisterDrawbacksWrong Turn Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.” PeopleFeelsLooksThreeLeftStageBandComfortableAspectFeel GoodMusic LoveLeft And Right Author:Joe Jonas
“Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.” PeopleIfsWantCareLastsLeftDrinkBandClubsLeft Alone Author:Scott Stapp
“There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.” IfsThinkingLongLeftForeverHappenedMagicBandPagesHappeningsPlantNostalgiaBotherJimmyZeppelinsJohn Paul Author:Jimmy Page
“I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.” KindDesireFallLeftDifferencesBoysBreakCasesAudienceCreativeFrontsBandSatisfiedFrustratedBuzzFall Out Boy Author:Patrick Stump
“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
“When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life, heart, and soul into that thing. I mean everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.” YearsHeartMeanStillsTwoSoulMatterShowsSongHouseLeftDarkRecordsBandSixCatFinishedBrokeTwo YearsOver ItAdamDivorcedHeart And SoulBroke UpDeep DarkTruckers Author:Patterson Hood
“I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.” WantGivingLeftCareersFrontsBandGive MeFlatsStardust Author:Carl Gardner
“I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.” ThinkingChildrenSoulRememberLeftSidesBandHappeningsHatedFeminineComing OutMetalsPunkBotheredMtvMetallicaLeft And Right Author:Stephen Malkmus
“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 went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there. The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I'm involved in all of that stuff.” FirstsBookDifferentShowsJoySpiritLeftStuffFrontsInvolvedBandOptimismGratefulInspiredCuriosityIncrediblesFollowingExcitementDifferent ThingsExplorationTeamworkLoyalExperimentationArtworkThings I Love Author:Bill Walton
“I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.” PeopleThinkingFirstsTogetherMovingYoungLeftAudienceBandBenefitsAlbumsPopsCoreVotersFourthFloatingShrinksPop Music Author:Ben Watt