“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!” IfsTryingStillsFactsFeelingsUsedParentMomProudBandMy MomOne Direction Author:Zayn Malik
“Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.” KindStillsRealizingLosesBandGood Bands Author:Marisha Pessl
“I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.” StillsGrewBandGrew UpThis DayItunes Author:Greg Laswell
“I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.” PeopleStillsBigsRocksBandJazzSurprisingRock And RollJazz Music Author:Bobby Vinton
“I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.” StillsImportantHappensWishChallengesWhiteRecordsMissingRight NowBandFulfillingStripesWhite Stripes Author:Jack White
“Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.” YearsStillsTwoTogetherBandThirdsRatePoisonTwo Years Author:Bret Michaels
“My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.” TryingMeanStillsRealDoneEyeSongBehindsFocusBandThoughtful Author:Ian MacKaye
“Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.” NeedsLittlesStillsKidsTvsInternetBandRadioLittle KidYoutubePlaying Music Author:Chris Cornell
“Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.” StillsBandQueensPurpleZeppelinsDeep Purple Author:Yul Vazquez
“We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.” WellsStillsFourBandHeyUps & Downs Author:Dave Schulthise
“Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!” IfsThinkingWorldHumansMadeStillsHandsBigsBeautifulHeavenCan DoKnownEnvironmentHeardBandSingingAngelInstrumentsHeavenlyOrchestraSymphonyOur EnvironmentChoirBeautiful MusicSymphony OrchestrasGreatest Music Author:David Berg
“Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsI CanPlayWholeHandsJesusStageFrontsBandGuitarExcitedLizardsStage Presence Author:J. Robbins
“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
“I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.” TryingStillsI CanWeekBandAddCompositionCatchingDebut Author:David First
“It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.” PeopleTryingStillsFormSoundBandSignificantRealmsCategoriesNew ThingsExceptionalFillingGems Author:David First
“My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.” StillsPlayShowsUsedPracticePlayerTaughtDadBandMy DadSpotsThis DayRehearsalBassMichiganBass PlayersPlaying Bass Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.” IfsTryingStillsRunningIdentityBandLipsRunning AwayAnvils Author:Steve "Lips" Kudlow
“My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.” PeopleWorldWayStillsReasonHelpingMightUnderstandingInterestingBandCuriosityInsightMy WayRevelationsHelp MeCommonplaceImpartSkeletonsDeviationHermaphrodites Author:Robertson Davies