Band Quotes - Page 39

• Nowadays, it's a lot more in the kids hands. You don't really need a record label. You can get the money together yourselves. You can just do it through Myspace. There are bands that are huge, without record labels today. Now, I think it's a lot more, in kids hands.

  Mattew Nicholls

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.

  Eddie Vedder

  Long, People, Way

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.

  Nikki Sixx

  Letting Go, Believe, Circles

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• Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.

  Nikki Sixx

  Team, Play, Guy

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• I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

  Nikki Sixx

  Honest, Members, Reinventing Yourself

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• When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

  Nikki Sixx

  Light, Looks, Want

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• The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.

  Nikki Sixx

  Magic, Sound, Details

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• The mindset of the people who put the shows on and those who go buy a ticket is so fundamentally different. The band themselves don't have a sense of things, and I found this out after a lot of years of pain and frustration.

  Dick Latvala

  Pain, Frustration, Years

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• [The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

  Jerry West

  Basketball, Nba, People

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Feel Good, Important

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

  Adam Duritz

  Priorities

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• I like to have a drink or two, but I cut down on that. It was getting a little out of control. Two of the guys in the band don't even drink at all. We just riff off each other man. We're just so, so eye-to-eye with our sense of humour that we can just sit in an empty room and entertain ourselves for hours.

  Jordan Buckley

  Eye, Cutting, Men

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I think it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better represented how we sound live with more of a rock feel, which is the direction we've been heading. It's just an evolution of the band throughout the years. We worked on this record longer than any other record, so I don't know if "stripped down" is how I would put it; I think it is a little bit more raw sounding.

  Jason C. Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is a multitude of wisdom that can be gained by bands like Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and the Cure. I think if we were to pay close attention to what's on the radio right now then we'd lose our identity entirely.

  Jason C. Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Black

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I think I'm just trying to show a more mature side of the band and I think we've really come into the sound of our band. With every album we've grown, but I think this is just a really good picture of where we are right now and how we feel our music represents us. Under the thumb of other record companies we haven't had as much creative control and I think with this record we really did our own thing.

  Jason C. Miller

  Thinking, Creative, Trying

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer at heart. I remember seeing the guitar player do the solo from "Werewolves of London" with his teeth, and that was the moment that had me hooked.

  Charlie Worsham

  Memories, Dad, Heart

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• Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.

  Kevin Fowler

  Thinking, States, Shows

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• I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change.

  Kevin Fowler

  Nice, Giving, Opinion

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• There is no way that I could pinpoint just one person. When I first started, I was listening to Randy Rogers quite a bit, and I was also pretty big into Josh Grider back then. I remember going to a lot of Kevin Fowler shows early, and Eli Young Band was another one of the groups I listened to a lot of when I was learning to write and play guitar.

  Curtis Grimes

  Writing, Guitar, Play

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• I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

  Aaron Watson

  Beautiful, Dream, Taken

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• Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.

  Stone Gossard

  Parent, Patterns, Figures

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• I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

  Herbie Hancock

  Years, Together, Albums

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• I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

  Carole King

  Moving, Piano, Guitar

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• You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and Elton and accompanying them with my band was a pretty euphoric experience.

  Diana Krall

  Husband, Benefits, Euphoric

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• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Responsibility, Guitar

  "An open letter from the Cobain family", www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2001.

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