Band Quotes - Page 27

• I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Night, Rocks, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

  Steve Albini

  Dream, Records, Want

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• Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Mean, Views

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

  Gene Simmons

  Football, Team, Rocks

  "Gene Simmons: 'I Don’t Like Handlers’". Interview with Carla Hay, sleazeroxx.com. June 6, 2004.

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• When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

  Stevie Nicks

  Careers, Three, Records

  "Stevie Nicks: 'When We Walk Into The Room, We Have To Float In Like Goddesses'". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. March 17, 2013.

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• The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

  Robert David Steele

  Teenager, Doors, Drunk

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• I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

  Iggy Pop

  Coffee, Light, Iguanas

  "What I've Learned: Iggy Pop" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

  Sakya Pandita

  Army, Intelligent, People

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• The Doors really were a band of potheads.

  Ray Manzarek

  Doors, Potheads

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• The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

  Liz Miller

  Military, Listening, Tunes

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• These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

  Lysander Spooner

  Reality, Government, Murderer

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons

  Steven Page

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

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• I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

  Elijah Wood

  Too Much, Music Love, I Love Music

  "TV Watch: Elijah Wood 'Daily Show' Transcript". "The Daily Show" with John Stewart, www.theonering.net. January 8, 2004.

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• For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Eels: He’s Electric". Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2009.

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• When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."

  Lizzo

  Children, Destiny, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

  Boy George

  Lemmings, Firsts, Influential

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

  Steve Martin

  Play

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.

  Stuart Hamm

  College, Weather, Play

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• Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

  Eliot Lewis

  People, Respect Each Other, Whole

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• I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Jobs, Night

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• Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

  Art Alexakis

  Artist, Should, Manage

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• Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered.

  Julian Gough

  Self Esteem, Should Have, Suffering

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• Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

  Charles Colson

  Faces, Oppression, Wilberforce

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people - as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Mean, Men

  "Ann Coulter: GOP has a ‘problem with charlatans’ like Sarah Palin". www.rawstory.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Coffee, Jeans, Fancy

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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