Bands Quotes

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

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

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

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.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

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

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.