Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Bell

We have no idea if we're going to be a band next year.

We were always a fun-oriented jam band. We were never one of those bands that played the framework of the song and jammed on it for six hours. Maybe a few hours, but not six.

We were trying to demonstrate that bandwidth was a commodity that could be traded. But we had to encourage our partners to do trades. In order to do that, we had to lose money on them.

We were trying to be a band that could play what we wanted to play, and people seemed to enjoy it, so that was real gratifying. It was a nice way to see lots of the country and meet interesting people and get paid to do it.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

George Ade

We've sold more than 60,000 tickets, so after we get all the bands and other non-ticketed folks in, we'll be close to capacity. We will definitely sell out.

The fact that most of the bands are made up of guys shows a positive representation of young men. This is the kind of energy we need in the forefront.

Corey Brewer

There are a lot of expectations and a lot of people on the bandwagon now. (If we lose), they're going to jump off. But hey, let them jump off because they're going to jump right back on because we feel like we're going to keep on winning.

Leon Bridges

There are a lot of bands who would get really big in Fort Worth and play shows on a Friday night that everybody would come out to. But I've never been really big in my hometown. My shows would have 10 or 15 people at them.

Jenny Lewis

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

Keith Buckley

When I was 15, 16 and joining this band when I was 18, I was just enthralled, and going to a basement and seeing it filled with kids was the best thing in the world. Now I'm looking at it like 'Basements? Is that really as good as it gets here?' And now there are Buffalo bands saying they're only going to play basements, like a rebellion thing. For us, there weren't any other options.

Tom Scholz

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

Ringo Starr

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

Tess Henley

My mom was in a band for over 30 years, and my brother, sister, and I start taking classical piano lessons when we were three. She's really the reason why I'm still playing piano - she made me practice every day before school and made it a priority even when we didn't necessarily want it to be.

Tess Henley

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually ,I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

Brian Eno

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Bret Michaels

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Mike Dirnt

When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,

Dhani Harrison

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Dhani Harrison

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

Caroline Corr

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Gary Sinise

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

LaMarr Woodley

Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

Liam Payne

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.

Jeff Greenfield

So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.

Laura Wade

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

John Hughes

When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.

Jamey Johnson

Blackberry Smoke is my favorite band!

Jane Wiedlin

Badfinger were a great band

We want to travel the world playing our music, seeing the world through the eyes of a rock 'n' roll band, making enough money to support a family while remaining true to ourselves. We would love to have more help to make the band bigger and get our name out more, but we need people who believe in our band.

Steve Harwell

We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.

Stone Gossard

We've actually rehearsed more for this tour than we've ever rehearsed in our lives. Matt is singing a lot of the vocal harmonies, and he's just killing it. The benefit of playing in a KISS cover band when you're 12 is that you learn to sing!

We started the band when we were in college, but we didn't start taking it seriously until about five years ago.