Band Quotes - Page 5

• Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

  Levon Helm

  Growing Up, Couple, Hero

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• But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Chicago, My Favorite, Favorite Bands

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• When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

  Babyface

  Style, Materials

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• I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

  Caroline Corr

  Particular, Happenings

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.

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• Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

  Vivian Campbell

  Rocks, Rock Bands

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

  Nina Hagen

  East Berlin, Drummer, My Own

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• I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

  Al Jarreau

  Song, Years, Needs

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• I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

  Thurston Moore

  Trying, Make Or Break, Release

  Interview with Jay Ferguson, www.chartattack.com. August 1, 1998.

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

  Jason Newsted

  Nice

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• No band is special, no player royalty.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Special, Royalty

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• My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Jobs, People, Babysitting

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• I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

  Ike Turner

  Teaching, Two, Guy

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• Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  People, Form, Stations

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• I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

  Bobby Vinton

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

  Charlie Watts

  Kids, Play, People

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• I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

  Yul Vazquez

  Children, Kids, Dark

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• Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

  Scott Putesky

  Diversity, Influence, Members

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• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  Zakk Wylde

  Sorry, Kids, Half

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• So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

  Billy Sherwood

  Dad, Guy, Way

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• If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

  Bill Wyman

  Song, Ideas, People

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• The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

  Max Weinberg

  Singers, Streets, Best Things

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• I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Average

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

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Problem, Enthusiastic

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• When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

  Charles Kuralt

  Father, Hate, Boys

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• As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

  Steven Tyler

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