Bands Quotes

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.