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“Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.”

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Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.”

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Author:KT Tunstall

“The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.”

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Author:Max Weinberg

“There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_

Source: The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_

“I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.”

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Author:Michael Stipe

“I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.”

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Author:Eleanor Friedberger

“It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.”

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Author:Simon Taylor-Davis

“I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the kid across the street. We sat around all day playing music and it was bliss. I didn't have any expectations or do it for anyone or worry about selling an album. That was really my favorite band. We were called Hot Chocolate.”

“I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen