Band Quotes

• Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

  Gene Simmons

  Reality, Rocks, Play

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• When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

  Henry Rollins

  Civilization, Black, Twenties

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Political

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• It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

  Charles Garfield

  Men, Genius, Bigs

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• This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Men, Land

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• We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Boys, Years, Gone

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• A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

  Paul Westerberg

  Rocks, People, Skins

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

  Tom Araya

  Ideas, Slayer, Venom

  "Interview: Slayer lyric". www.askmen.com.

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• A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Jobs, Team, People

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• Just start dancing and the band will find you.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Dancing, Ecstasy

  Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  Scott Putesky

  Song, Particular, Disturbing

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• I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

  Boy George

  Sex, Idols, Clubs

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• To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

  Geezer Butler

  Roots, Made, Heavy

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• There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

  Elliott Smith

  Knows, Cant

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• I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

  Roger Daltrey

  Ideas, Together, Wanted

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• Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Blow, Labels, Blame

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

  Robert Fripp

  Pulse, Common, Meter

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• From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Important, Generations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Debbie Harry

  Mean, Thinking, Eclectic Style

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• People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Girl, People, Looks

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• By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

  Levon Helm

  Thrill, Lasts, Kind

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• Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

  Eddie Izzard

  Boys, People, Singing

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

  Wanda Jackson

  Guy, Other Guys

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• As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

  Adam Jones

  Three, Grunge, Seattle

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• I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

  Ewan McGregor

  Guitar, Scotland, Stuff

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