Bands Quotes

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.

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

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.

A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

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

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

I'm always forming bands.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.