Band Quotes - Page 40

• I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

  John Legend

  Player, Night, Giving

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• My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

  Jonny Lang

  Mom, Country, Dad

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• Of all of them, I just -- maybe because I know them, but I think 'N Sync has -- can maybe transcend that whole boy band thing, you know, because they got a good attitude and a good spirit, and they're talented guys.

  Joey McIntyre

  Attitude, Thinking, Boys

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• My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Brother, Dad

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• It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Men, Thinking, People

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• I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.

  Venetian Snares

  Couple, Kids, Years

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• I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. I can't relate to it either, as for grunge music, well that was the death kneel for a lot of the glam metal hair bands of the 80's, so I really do not care for grunge. I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Hair, Missing, Style

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• I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing missing from Guided By Voices was a lead guitarist. In the early days, I would bring people in just to play leads, like Greg Demos and Steve Wilbur.

  Robert Pollard

  Guitar, Play, Voice

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• I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

  Mike Shinoda

  Couple, Rapper, Years

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• I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

  John Hiatt

  Boys, Rocks, Years

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• We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

  Glenn Miller

  Leader, Get Up

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• One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.

  Dean Wareham

  Running, Song, Nice

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• I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)

  Yenz Leonhardt

  Song, Teenager, Fate

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• I have a feeling that the kids are slowly returning to the roots, with this new Metal trend. I can really feel there are a lot of exciting young bands doing kinds of underground Metal, which of course is a lot more dirty than the stuff that we do, but I like it all the same.

  Yenz Leonhardt

  Dirty, Kids, Roots

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• We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

  Drew Goddard

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• I was writing before I met Rick and actually I created the band before Rick Finch. Basically, the first album, I wrote. Who's to say what would've happened? Rick was very talented too.

  Harry Wayne Casey

  Writing, Albums, Firsts

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• Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd heard of them, I knew music was my calling. I listened to it all day, and I loved it so much that I wanted to be a part of it, so I worked on being in a band from there.

  Agent M

  Listening, Calling, Green

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• Personally, the message that I would like to convey to everyone is just that life is really great and you can do whatever you want with it. That's what I feel like I've gotten out of my experience with the band, because I have done so many amazing things that I never thought I would get to do-and I don't really feel like I'm any more qualified than the next person. I feel like people should take their goals seriously and do exactly what they want, because they can.

  Agent M

  People, Goal, Done

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• I think the record-buying public know what they like, and when people are trying to pander to them, I think they know it. They want the genuine article, so if we try to sort of "dumb down" for the mass public, I think they're too smart for that, and would recognize us as fakes. It seems like the bands that do crossover do so really on their own terms, and they just find that their terms just kind of make a big dove-tail with the masses.

  Ira Kaplan

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.

  Shane Filan

  Looks, Bigger, Pops

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• The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

  Shane Filan

  Couple, Stress, Twilight

  "Westlife's Shane Filan talks about crippling bankruptcy and losing £18 million" by Victoria Garo-Falides, www.mirror.co.uk. August 9, 2013.

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• You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

  Shane Filan

  Kids, Voice, Opposites

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• I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.

  Nate Mendel

  Sorry, Opportunity, Given

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• When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Morning, Teenager

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• I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

  Dave Grohl

  Boys, Fire, Music Is

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