Bands Quotes

Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

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

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.