Band Quotes

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

I want to be in the best band in the world again.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

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

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

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

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

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

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.

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

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

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

The main thing is that this band keeps going.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

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

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

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

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

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

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.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band.

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

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.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

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

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.