Band Quotes - Page 33

• Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fleetwood Mac, Macs, All Time

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• I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Leigh-Anne Pinnock

  Groups, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Wanted

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• I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.

  Michael Buble

  Mean, Play, Musician

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• It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.

  Tessanne Chin

  Song, Powerful, Guitar

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• Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

  Janina Gavankar

  Names, Today, Imaginary

  FaceBook post by Janina Gavankar from Sep 29, 2013

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• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  Bill Crow

  Song, Morning, Reading

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• My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.

  Bill Crow

  Teacher, School, Order

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• The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

  Christian McBride

  New York, Green, Firsts

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• I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

  Art Pepper

  Want, Chance, Great Experiences

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• The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

  Danny Barker

  New Orleans, Play, Two

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• Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

  Danny Barker

  Player, New Orleans, Giving

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• Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

  Harry James

  Practice, Used, Whole

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• There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.

  Zutty Singleton

  Country, Jobs, New Orleans

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• I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

  Patsy Cline

  Daughter, Son, Hands

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• I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.

  Dave Grohl

  Hate, Space, Just Being

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• You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Years, Want

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• At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Book, Writing

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• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  Dave Grohl

  Men, Ideas, Monsters

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• I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

  Dave Grohl

  Simple, Play, People

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• Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

  Dave Grohl

  Powerful, People, Joining

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• You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.

  Pauly Shore

  Comedian, Going Away, Actors

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• A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

  Tommy Bolin

  Believe, Stories, Should

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• I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

  Tommy Bolin

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• I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

  Tommy Bolin

  Working Together, Records, Want

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• All musicians are potential band leaders.

  Thelonious Monk

  Leader, Musician

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