Band Quotes - Page 14

• My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

  Steve Valentine

  Struggle, Rocks, World

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• The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  Pat Metheny

  Life Changing, Unity, Musician

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• Disharmony is natural in any band.

  Joan Jett

  Natural, Disharmony

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• I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Writing, School, Painting

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• I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.

  Janis Joplin

  Moving, Simple, Rocks

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• I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

  Stephen Mangan

  Guitar, Play, Together

  "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

  Ed Speleers

  Thinking, Heavy, Feels

  Interview with Suzanne Freeman, www.scholastic.com.

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• The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

  Chuck Berry

  Guitar, People, Style

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• Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

  Chuck Berry

  Home, Rocks, Way

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• From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  School, Play, Ballet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Blackberry Smoke is my favorite band!

  Jamey Johnson

  My Favorite, Blackberries, Smoke

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• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Girl, New York, Gigs

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• The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

  Billy Gibbons

  Quitting, Enough

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• Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

  Brian Johnson

  Hungry, Blackberries, Smoke

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• There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Years

  "Twenty years after In Utero, Nirvana's importance hasn't diminished" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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• Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Blue, Vision, Three

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• The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

  Amanda Palmer

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Jeans

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

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• The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

  Mickey Hart

  Grateful, Play, People

  "Mickey Hart on the Grateful Dead: 'We Weren't a Girl Scouts Troop'". Interview with Benjy Eisen, www.rollingstone.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

  Jon Anderson

  Rocks, Long, World

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• The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

  Ethan Hawke

  Writing, Moments, Process

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

  Stevie Nicks

  People, Sides, Projects

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Past, Night

  "Paul Weller heads across the universe on 'Saturns Pattern'". Associated Press interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 10, 2015.

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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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• We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.

  Chuck Comeau

  Together, Records, Wrecks

  "Simple Plan Reveal New Album Plans, Talk 5sos & Warped Tour". Interview with Maria Sherman, www.fuse.tv. July 22, 2015.

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