Band Quotes - Page 25

• When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case."

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Night, Thinking

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2013.

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• I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  Song, Mean, Thinking

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• My whole background was with bands, so I always thought of "fashion" as performative. It took me a long time to bridge the gap between my music and what I was studying in school, [which was] dance and being a performer.

  Le1f

  Fashion, School, Bridges

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Men, Directors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

  Glenn Frey

  Jobs, Sometimes, Enough

  "The Eagles' Greatest Hit" by Bill Simmons, grantland.com. August 14, 2013.

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• It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Player, Swings, Doe

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• Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

  Mike Huckabee

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

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• When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.

  Dr. John

  Art, Latin, Kids

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• Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

  Sheila E.

  Grateful, Wind, Fire

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• There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

  Brian Molko

  Football, Mother, Believe

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• Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!

  Billy Taylor

  Names, Careers, Symphony

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• High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.

  Steve Aoki

  School, Sleep, College

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• Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

  Scott Stapp

  People, Care, Clubs

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• The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

  Phil Collins

  Stars, Rocks, Rooms

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• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Oxygen, Shelter

  "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

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• Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

  Dave Barry

  Teenager, Rain, Sarcasm

  "Whining Down The Country's Roads With Dave Barry And Family". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. September 1, 1991.

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• Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'

  Dave Grohl

  Queens, Gone, Mercury

  "Dave Grohl: How To Make An Arena Feel Like A Punk Club". Interview with Jacob Ganz, www.npr.org. April 07, 2011.

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• I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then they got a lot of attention in Europe. A lot of bands that can't catch flies in the US have these followings in Europe, [but] it's less and less the case. American audiences are way more sophisticated and adventurous than anyone thinks that they are.

  Andrew Bird

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life."

  Malin Akerman

  Writing, Italian, Years

  "Malin Akerman Talks Rock of Ages". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 12, 2017.

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• To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

  Allen Toussaint

  Play, Chords, Arrangements

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.

  Huey Morgan

  Marine, Want, Made

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Wings, Crowds, Bucks

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• When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Talking, Compromise, Life Experience

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• There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band

  Bernard Fanning

  Battle, Psycho, Constant

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

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• So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.

  Pelle Almqvist

  Real, Dirty, Guitar

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

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