Band Quotations | Page 3

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I love both real and fake jewelry. My kids make me necklaces, and I wear those, too. Every day, I wear my gold wedding band and the Cartier watch my husband gave me.

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like.

I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

You should be watching 'Red Band Society' because it's a show that inspires us to live. I feel like you'll get connected to these characters, and they teach you something that you can apply to your daily life.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I'm still nowhere near that point. Because I didn't have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

I think my ultimate fashion icon would have to be Gwen Stefani. I love her persona; I love what she embodies and represents. I love the fact that she was a girl fronting a band of boys in No Doubt.

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal

It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

I honestly feel it could all end tomorrow. Not just the band thing - I mean life.

My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they're really good.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.

Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.