Band Quotes - Page 29

• Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

  Mick Garris

  Important, Singers, Youth

  Source: collider.com

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• We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more.

  Spencer Smith

  Trying, Tone, Catchy

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• If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Thinking, Guy, Records

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• I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.

  Luke Treadaway

  Looks, Radio, Tvs

  "InStyle speaks to Luke Treadaway". Interview with Sarah Smith, www.instyle.co.uk. March 7, 2013.

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• It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

  Luke Treadaway

  Years, Fake, Film

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  Ian Anderson

  Taken, Rocks, Musician

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• I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Genius, Months, Lennon

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• Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

  Don Henley

  Song, Dad, Hero

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• There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Long, Forever

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• The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

  Boy George

  Splits, Way, Separate Ways

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• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  Brian May

  Queens, Thinking, Arms

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• The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

  Brian May

  Size, Kind, States

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• I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Listening, Teens, Records

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

  Ric Ocasek

  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Sanity

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 7, 2006.

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• What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Rocks, Important

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• I hate the attitude of, 'oh we already have a Lydia Lunch, so we do we need a Bikini Kill.' Well, there's like 2 hundered million all-male bands writting 'baby baby I love you, let me drag you around on my ankle.' Is that enough already? Duh!

  Kathleen Hanna

  Baby, Attitude, Hate

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• I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Mean, Magic

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Feminist, Ambassadors, Roles

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• I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.

  Tobi Vail

  Girl, Growing Up, Play

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• If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.

  Tobi Vail

  Girl, Thinking, Rocks

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• I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

  Steve Aoki

  Mom, Teenager, Dark

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• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

  Al Jourgensen

  Thinking, Rocks, Southern

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• If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play

  Rick Allen

  Encouragement, Play, People

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• When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

  Eric Clapton

  Voice, Mouths, Electric

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• I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

  Henry Rollins

  Disappointed, Left, Left And Right

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