Band Quotes - Page 24

• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  William B. Travis

  Brother, Thinking, Texas

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• When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

  Mike Shinoda

  School, Watches, My Favorite

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• I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

  Trent Reznor

  Football, Team, School

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• A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

  Bill Bruford

  Reading, Rocks, Guy

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• Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Silly, Safety Pins

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• How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. File under - Do Not Overlook and Go Tell Your Friends

  Dave Allen

  Hurt, Guitar, Giving

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• My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

  Lindi Ortega

  Growing Up, Dad, Player

  "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.

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• Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

  Stark Sands

  Growing Up, School, Rocks

  Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. April 14, 2010.

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• I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

  Stark Sands

  School, Singing, Choir

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

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• New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.

  Allan Kozinn

  Running, Labels, Records

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• Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the sound is always fresh. I was impressed. I think you will be too.

  Tony Trischka

  Creativity, Thinking, Blue

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• I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

  Steve Antin

  School, Mash Up, Green

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

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• I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "Collider Interviews Sunny Mabrey and Michael Angarano". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 5, 2006.

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• I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like. I just like to fantasize that he would like our band and he would know what we were up to.

  Theresa Wayman

  Wish, Cobain, Right Now

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• I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Wall, Book, Thinking

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• People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

  Adam Duritz

  Up Early, People, Needs

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• The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.

  Johnny Ramone

  Years, Class, Albums

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Aug 21, 2015

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• Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

  Ricky Gervais

  Boys, Piracy, Boy Bands

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2012

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• Poets are band leaders who have failed.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Leader, Poet

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.52, Heinemann

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• Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Jobs, Mtv, Two

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Song, Mtv, Albums

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

  Nico Muhly

  Jealous, Long, Conservatory

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

  LeVar Burton

  Growth, Patterns, Rubber

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We use a neck training machine where you can strengthen the muscles, going front to back, side to side. You can also connect a big resistance band to a wall or something and do the exercise like that.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Wall, Exercise, Training

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• In the morning, I work on my core stability and do some work with the exercise bands. Sometimes I do some upper body and a little bit of leg weights to get warm and ready for training. And then I'm out on the pitch.

  Jozy Altidore

  Morning, Exercise, Training

  Source: www.askmen.com

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