Band Quotes - Page 12

• I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn't sound like something they would die for.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Fall, Boys, Thinking

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• I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  People, Special, Looks

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• As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  New York, Good Friend, Thinking

  "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.

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• I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.

  Robin Pecknold

  Hanging Out

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• Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

  Teddy Thompson

  Fun, Mind, Different

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• I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'

  Teddy Thompson

  School, Opportunity, Play

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• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Chicago, Albums

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

  Dave Grohl

  Gone Away, Love Of My Life, Feelings

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.

  Dennis Cooper

  Kids, Writing, Creativity

  "Go Forth (Vol. 19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.

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• A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

  Rob Delaney

  Thinking, Long, Endurance

  "'Catastrophe' Creators Talk Rom-Coms and Romantic 'Endurance': 'It's Love Under Pressure'". Interview with Paige Phelan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July08, 2015.

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• There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.

  Gwen Stefani

  Play, Together, Trying

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.

  Ringo Starr

  Stars, Years, Two

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

  Ringo Starr

  Fine

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

  Ringo Starr

  Doors, Play, Policy

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

  Courtney Barnett

  Grew, Decent, Australian

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

  Michael Gira

  Guitar, Voice, Acoustics

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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• When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

  Denis Leary

  Ideas, Dysfunctional Family, Rescue

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

  Denis Leary

  Awards, Rocks, Mtv

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.

  Jimmy Page

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

  Nikki Sixx

  Thinking, Sound, Add

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

  Pete Seeger

  New York, Father, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience. It's not something a whole lot of rock bands do.

  Dylan Baldi

  Song, Rocks, Two

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way and create music that is one cohesive unit. It's not catchy like a pop song, but it's a really cool song.

  Dylan Baldi

  Song, Personality, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Passion, Play

  Source: www.nolivelost.com

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• I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

  Steven Tyler

  Care, Problem, I Realized

  "Aerosmith is better than ever says frontman Steven Tyler". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.csmonitor.com. July 17, 2010.

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