Bands Quotes

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.