Bands Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.