Band Quotes - Page 26

• For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

  Andy Summers

  Ice, Together, Half

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• Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.

  Andy Summers

  Kings, Stupid, Rocks

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• I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

  Andy Summers

  Stage

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• To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

  Andy Summers

  Guy, Hot, Needs

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• There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Musical, Tools, Use

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• When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

  Bryan Ferry

  College, People, Singing

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

  Nick Zinner

  Fans, Culture, Alternatives

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Smart, Rocks, Oasis

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• If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

  Duke Ellington

  Drummer, Mediocre, Ifs

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• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Brass Bands, Doe

  George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

  Duke Ellington

  White, House, Wish

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• This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

  Louie Bellson

  Country, School, Labs

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• The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

  Horace Silver

  Play, Tunes, Ensemble

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

  Gary Burton

  Writing, Play, Texas

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Texas, Musician, Groups

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• Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

  Pete Wentz

  Rain, Fighting, People

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• In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

  Adam Dunn

  Baseball, Football, Single Mom

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• I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

  Michael Parkinson

  Memories, Inspiration, Brass Bands

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• We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species - might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds.

  Carl Sagan

  Summer, Winter, Land

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play grindcore or be in a scream-o band, so it was fun to finally have that experience of having my songs backed by a drummer and a bassist who were just as excited about it as I was.

  Weyes Blood

  Song, Fun, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it turns out in the end. Even the smallest things. You don't want to really acknowledge that, because you want to believe that you are the only creative asset as a director. You want to believe you're the only one. But I really feel that everyone teams up and everybody really affects everything. Actually, it's the closest I will get to playing in a band.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Team, Believe, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

  Taryn Manning

  Singers, I Can

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

  Geoff Rickly

  Trying, Nostalgia, Hardcore

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.

  AraabMuzik

  School, Kids, College

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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