“Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.” MiddleBandRaisesFingersMiddle Finger Author:Patrick Stump
“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.” ThinkingShouldYearsLooksMadeSchoolTreeMiddleRocksCoupleBandEconomicsShould HaveGrantedShakesIdleRock And RollBack WhenRippedReplacements Author:Paul Westerberg
“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
“Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.” LooksShowsFeelingsHappensBreakGoneMiddleWorstBandFighterEquipmentBreaking DownVansMusic LoveLove Of My LifeTime Of My LifeGone AwayWorst TimesFoo FightersDisbanded Author:Dave Grohl
“We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.” RealUsedNightFightingWhiteBreakCrazyMiddleHairBandBeerCowboyPenniesGeorgiaGuitaristBreak OutStripesWhite StripesPink HairCbgb Author:Rex Smith
“From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.” PeopleLittlesAgeBitsMiddleBandLittle BitVariousWideHomosexualPercentagesStimulus Author:Gore Vidal
“Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.” WayDoneBigsRecordsMiddleRocksBandFingersLabelsPunkPunk RockRock BandsRecord LabelsMiddle Finger Author:Brandon Thomas
“I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.” KindSchoolMiddleBandInstrumentsJazzPianoMy SisterJazz MusicMiddle SchoolSaxophoneJazz Band Author:Miles Teller
“Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.” MenHeartAgeYoungLyingPowerfulMiddleRocksMovementFlowerBandLateFunctionImpulseYoung ManTeensSixtyMisogynySeventiesFraternityRock BandsMods Author:Michael Chabon
“As the planet wobbles, once every 26,000 years we visually align with the center of the galaxy. But it's such a slow movement that as we enter the galactic equator (The band of stars in the sky - The Milky Way), it takes 18 years to get to the middle of it, and another 18 to exit it. So astronomically, "The 2012 experience" is a 36 year alignment process, not something that happens on Dec 21, 2012.” WayYearsHappensStarsProcessSkyMiddleMovementPlanetsBandGalaxyExitAlignmentMilky WayStars In The SkyEquator Author:Lee Carroll
“My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.” MayDoeKidsNamesStrongFiveWifeMiddleStyleMoonBandMusicianDaughterDirectUnionsSurpriseMy DaughterBanjos Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“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
“Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.” SchoolBitsMiddleHavensBandHigh SchoolJazzGuitarTouchedMiddle SchoolAfter High SchoolJazz BandLife After High School Author:Mike Tucker