Band Quotes - Page 17

• For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

  Michael Stipe

  Fall, Vision, Faces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or learning about music or are finding this band called R.E.M. or have just previously heard "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts" as their elevator music. I wanted to present an idea of what an album could be in the age of YouTube and the Internet.

  Christopher Bollen

  Hurt, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

  Daniel Craig

  Down And, Matter, Beats

  Interview with Daniel Craig, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

  Thom Yorke

  Toil, Labels, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

  Adam Anderson

  Creativity, Trying, Genre

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

  Chrissy Costanza

  Want, Kind, Scene

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I'm really a one-man band.

  Graham King

  Men, One Man

  Source: collider.com

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• Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Play, Crowds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

  Ezra Furman

  Kids, Trying, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

  Britney Spears

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: collider.com

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• We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

  Jaime Preciado

  Song, Safe, Places To Go

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• Remember kids: Don't get emotionally attached to a band. You'll get pregnant and die.

  Ashton Irwin

  Kids, Remember, Dies

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• I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

  Sam Dunn

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  "Heavy metal and violence: More than a myth?" by James Donkin, www.cnn.com. ay 12, 2008.

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• The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam Hussein supporters to get them to talk. Theyre blaring heavy metal music at them. That should make the artist feel pretty good, huh? Put your heart and soul into your last CD and the Army is using it to torture people.

  Jay Leno

  Military, Heart, Army

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• A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

  James Bay

  Guitar, Stuff, Acoustics

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• Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

  Gene Simmons

  Lines, Ass, Form

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned". Interview with Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.

  Matt Berninger

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Rocks, Sometimes, Knows

  Concert in Sydney, April 19, 2007.

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• Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

  Josh Klinghoffer

  Teenager, Mates, Wanted

  "Interview: Josh Klinghoffer talks Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dot Hacker, Rock Hall of Fame". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. May 1, 2002.

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• I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Years, Play

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• Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Reality, Space

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20,2010.

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• This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time. It's a really, really old job. When you look at the way that a small band toured back in the '50s, it's similar to the way that a small band tours now. It's been this long tradition, and when you meet somebody who has been doing this for a really long time, you have to have tremendous respect for them.

  Will Sheff

  Jobs, Old Job, Long

  Source: www.spin.com

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• People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

  Lou Reed

  Song, School, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even finish the video. And that's really sad, because maybe I'd like that song. I think that we don't give stuff a chance to really sink in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Thinking, Giving

  "Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna, All Grown Up". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. January 13, 2014.

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