Band Members Quotes

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

Steven Van Zandt

Sports, Team, Army

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People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Laura Schlessinger

Integrity, Failure, People

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At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

Shirley Manson

Strong, Army, Talking

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Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

Wim Wenders

Soul, Band, Stories

"The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Kristin Hersh

Fun, Stupid, Humor

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Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

Rick Springfield

Song, Writing, Cameras

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The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.

Nikki Sixx

Letting Go, Believe, Circles

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I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

Nikki Sixx

Band, Honest, Members

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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

Maisie Williams

People, Consistency, Counting

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EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

Ben Brantley

Artist, Dancer, Band

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I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

Nick Cave

Song, Eye, Different

"Screenwriter/Composer Nick Cave Talks LAWLESS, Transitioning into Screenwriting, Guillermo del Toro’s PINOCCHIO, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.

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I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.

Dave Barry

Book, Sleep, Wife

Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].

Steven Sebring

Band, London, Facts

Source: www.pbs.org

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Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.

Beau Bokan

Fans, Band, Etc

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Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

Beau Bokan

Believe, Fans, Networking

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When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.

Andy Bell

Real, Thinking, Play

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All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

Hunter Hayes

Dad, Band, Enough

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Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles!.

Brad Paisley

Music, Fun, Real

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I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.

Chuck Comeau

Dream, Simple, Thinking

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I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

Woody Allen

Sunday, Player, Tennis

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As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

Tommy Shaw

Artist, Play, Band

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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

Cameron Crowe

Journey, Emotional, Years

"Cameron Crowe Directs Pearl Jam Video, Plus Chatting With The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Primus’ Les Claypool". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2011.

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