Band Quotes - Page 23

• The band that I was I auditioning for, they were just all like, dreads and stuff, so I did look kind of out of place. But I had learned the material and it sounded cool as f**k when we were rehearsing.

  Tony Palermo

  Looks, Stuff, Kind

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• We[ Papa Roach ]'re always trying to get bigger and bigger. It's weird because I wasn't around when they sold millions of records. Now it's just always about "OK what new people can we get to." We're trying to package up with younger bands like Bring Me the Horizon or Of Mice and Men. Those bands always get talked about, because their demographic is so young. But, actually we are seeing a lot of younger people at shows which is awesome.

  Tony Palermo

  Men, Always Trying, People

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• Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows.

  Tony Palermo

  Song, Guy, Energy

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• I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.

  Joe Jonas

  People, Feel Good, Three

  "Get Ready to DNCE". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

  Roger Ross Williams

  Community, Southern, Style

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Being in this band [the Spice Girls] is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.

  Emma Bunton

  Girl, Dream, Leaving

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• There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

  Robert Fripp

  Differences, Pulse, Steps

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• Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Ed Sullivan

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• I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

  Dan Fogelberg

  School, High School, Firsts

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• Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

  Neil Young

  Long, Professionalism, Bother

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• I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

  John Lydon

  Country, Hero, Mean

  "What's up? Docs!" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

  Thomas Beecham

  Couple, Boys, Brass Bands

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• Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

  Lena Horne

  Men, Way

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• When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fun, Artist, Thinking

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• We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

  Ketch Secor

  Girl, Player, Female

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

  Robert Crumb

  Ideas, Connections, Records

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

  Imelda May

  Together, No Point, Ifs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.

  Win Butler

  People, Political, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

  Ariel Pink

  Art, Stupid, Rocks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would always have liked to play in a band. I would always have liked to be a substantial writer, to write country music for big singers. I had all sorts of proclivities, but I never had any big success.

  Chuck Barris

  Country, Book, Writing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

  Cris Mazza

  Girl, College, Special

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

  Cass McCombs

  Baseball, Team, Hero

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• I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

  Cass McCombs

  Able, Ready, Willing

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• We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

  Sam Endicott

  Hate, People

  "Killers Beef, Hipster Backlash Can't Bring The Bravery Down". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. April 20, 2005.

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