Band Quotes - Page 21

• I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

  John Mayer

  Who I Am, Dave, Matthew

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• He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

  Jack Campbell

  Patience, Dark, Light

  Jack Campbell (2009). “The Lost Fleet: Relentless”, p.144, Penguin

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• I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

  Steven Wright

  Naked

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• I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

  John Wozniak

  Love, Sadness, Able

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• Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

  Brandon Thomas

  Rocks, Labels, Done

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• All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.

  Brandon Thomas

  Journey, Together, Wells

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• It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

  Alvin Lee

  Christian, Guitar, Play

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• Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

  Trey Anastasio

  Dream, Blessing, Play

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• I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

  Marc Edwards

  Track, Lost, Folks

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• I loved being in a band.

  Adam Ant

  "Adam Ant: 'To be a pop star you need sex, subversion, style and humour'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2012.

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• I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

  Ben Folds

  Pain, White, Gigs

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

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• I've sung background for a couple of bands.

  Randy Jackson

  Couple, Backgrounds

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• To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

  John Oates

  Together, Playing Together

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• Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

  Carlos Santana

  Opportunity, Roaming Around, Wake Up

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• Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.

  Jon Landau

  Philosophy, Writing, Rocks

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• The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Rolling, Stones

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• The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

  Jon Landau

  Self, England, Conscious

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• I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

  John Wozniak

  Guitar, Play, Playgrounds

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• There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

  Meat Loaf

  Oil, Australia, Political

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

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• Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

  John Strachan

  Ambition, Fighting, Men

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• If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nice, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

  Danger Mouse

  People, Wake Up, Nightmare

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

  Danger Mouse

  Done, World, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got to a point in my life when I'd done loads of things I regretted. I made all the wrong decisions. I was trying to fill my life with all these projects, hoping that one of them would succeed. I was like a cheating girlfriend. I was cheating on all the bands with other bands, and I was trying to manage everything.

  Duffy

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else.

  Keith Murray

  Thinking, Trying, Nerves

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