Band Quotes - Page 32

• I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

  Joe Casey

  Convince, I Can

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Touring is exciting, fun and the reason why you want to be in a band.

  Joe Casey

  Fun, Want, Reason Why

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I saw the Ramones, early on at a country-rock palace in Denver. They were opening for some record-company band, so the local music establishment, and I emphasize the word "establishment," was there in force, and the handful of us who knew the Ramones were up in front. And half the fun was, you know, not only were the Ramones the most powerful band I had ever seen at that point, but they made it look so simple - that anyone could do it, hell, even I could do it. This is what I should be doing.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Fun, Powerful

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.

  Jello Biafra

  Sports, Country, Hippie

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.

  Jello Biafra

  Attitude, Nice, Two

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

  Jello Biafra

  San Francisco, Different, Today

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Mean, Years

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• People used the term "hardcore" loosely. A lot of bands use it as a jumping stone to the next level. Hardcore, it's got a lot more to with then music. It's a very passionate movement.

  Roger Miret

  Jumping, People, Next Level

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I can do whatever I want, I can have my band, I can use different people, I can use studio players, it's complete, total freedom for me. If I want to make a video, now that I own my own record company, if the video has an American flame being engulfed by a huge puddle of oil, I can do that, I can say that if I want to.

  Richard Patrick

  Player, Flames, Oil

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things will come around again and bands will once again want to "communicate" "ideas" with their audience, and not just content themselves with providing attitude and atmosphere with clichés on top.

  Wooden Wand

  Attitude, Ideas, Atmosphere

  Interview With John Foster, brightestyoungthings.com. March 11, 2013.

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• The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.

  Al Kooper

  Song, Funny Things, Play

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• So, I play in a band. It's a really underground band. Super underground. Very underground. Like, we don't even actually play.

  Greg Behrendt

  Play

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• I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Underwear, Smugglers

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• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

  Ernest Gaines

  Reading, Writing, Imagination

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• I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

  Hayley Williams

  Hard Work, Needs, Crafts

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• I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

  Bill Burr

  Documentaries, Albums, Records

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• One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

  Branford Marsalis

  Listening, Musician, Instinct

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• Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

  Herbie Mann

  Wine, Age, Done

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• I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

  Eugene Mirman

  Guitar, Play, Rocks

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• I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.

  Amy Schumer

  Shoes, Ideas, Guy

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• The best way to break up with a girl is like I'm taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girl, Way, Break

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010

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• You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!

  Arj Barker

  Mean, Alzheimer's, Disease

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• Women do it all the time to look younger and it would make perfect sense if one of them ever came out looking younger - but they don't. They just look the same; they all get plastic surgery face. No matter who they look like going in, they all come out looking like the girl from the band on 'The Muppet Show.

  Dana Gould

  Girl, Perfect, Looks

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• Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

  Dov Davidoff

  Boys, Men, Vegas

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Mar 23, 2012

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• I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

  Christian Finnegan

  Play, Bass, Good Enough

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