Bands Quotes

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 idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

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.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.

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.

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

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

I'm always forming bands.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.