Band Quotes - Page 15

• My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Creating, People

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mistake, People, Looks

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

  Earl Monroe

  Artist, Blood, Years

  "'The Pearl' Still Shining: An Interview with New York Knicks Legend Earl Monroe". Interview with Keith Schlosser, bleacherreport.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

  Tom Odell

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• To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

  Scott Weiland

  Player, Guitar, Energy

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• To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

  Scott Weiland

  Fans, Generations, Classic

  "Stone Temple pilots reunite to continue 'legacy', thanks to Scott Weiland's wife" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 8, 2008.

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• With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Age, Degrees

  "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

  John Philip Sousa

  Sections

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• I love rings, but I cant wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

  Justin Tuck

  Mean, Years, Wife

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• Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

  Rick Astley

  School, School Days

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• I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

  Rick Astley

  Rocks, Play, Drummer

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

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• I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Real, Rocks, People

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• We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

  Allan Houston

  Talking, Want, Problem

  "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

  Chino Moreno

  Religious, Thinking, Symbolism

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• I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

  Ronnie Wood

  Long, Digging, Stills

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• Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

  Zac Brown

  Stars, Class, Clay

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• In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Country, Powerful, Past

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  Yann Tiersen

  Way, Punk, Classical Music

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• I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Thinking, People, Favorite Bands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

  Paul Shaffer

  Fire, Play, Add

  Paul Shaffer, David Ritz (2009). “We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga”, p.58, Anchor

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• When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

  Chris Frantz

  Summer, Sports, Cousin

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• Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

  Mike Patton

  Jealous, Thinking, Focus

  Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

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• There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

  Alex Kapranos

  Produce, Load

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Mean, Next, Radiohead

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• Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

  Noah Baumbach

  College, People, Interesting

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