Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arlo Guthrie

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

Bob Seger

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

Dee Dee Ramone

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Kim Gordon

A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

Paul Eenhoorn

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

Rick Moranis

Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.

Rick Danko

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

Rick Danko

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

Phil Anselmo

I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the past re-releases, we were fortunate enough to have old demos and stuff that never really saw the light of day. But Pantera was not the type of band to waste many riffs or many parts or songs.

Phil Anselmo

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.

We have three good size rooms here. We have the band room. We also have the Internet room with computers and Internet access. And we have a plasma TV lounge.

We were sort of struggling in the beginning to find the direction stylistically what exactly we wanted to be, ... We sort of had a few different things going on that were probably good for a young band because it gave us options as far as what path we wanted to really go full-throttle with.

To label us a tribute band isn't accurate. What we are is an interpretive band. We take these wonderful compositions and make them into something completely different.

Nikki Sixx

You know, we've all talked about how mostly, more than anything, we just really wanted to have a good time. And I think that, you know, this tour has really turned out to be a lot of fun for us as band members and as friends. You know, we've been friends for forever.

Natalie Maines

We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.

Daniel Johns

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

We know there's hundreds of thousands of bands out there. The community we've launched today is in beta, so we want to get to understand the volume.

Peter Steele

We've been fortunate that we could choose, from all the songs I'd written, those that the band considered to be the best.

Hillary Scott

We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I'm sure a lot of bands are like, 'I need my own space.' But we don't. I want to be with these guys forever.

We get Rutgers students at our shows all the time. The Cabin is always a blast to play. It's a way to enjoy a hobby I love, and the band is really smoking. It's great to just see everybody get out there and dance.

Mike Hill

We are now seeing video-based applications that greatly increase capacity requirements. Communities are going to need the bandwidth that comes from fiber, and nobody should stand in the way of that.

Lars Ulrich

We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover songs, drink some vodka...' a year and a half later we were touring the world, releasing records.

Mark Zandi

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed.

Andrew Luck

The Nike Fuel Band is interesting - it measures your movements and how far you've walked and how hard you've worked that day. I prefer using when I travel. It's a fun way to see how far I've walked - how many steps I've taken when I'm walking around different cities.

Zedd

I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

Beck

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

We are doing a kind of battle of the bands. There is always a need for instrument replacement and repair, so there is a need for money to be returned for those types of things. ... It is nice to see the interest of school bands and the effort that is put into getting a group together and getting them out there to perform on the street.

Though we don't definitely know the mechanism by which these jets are produced, our findings are supportive of the idea that magnetic field lines interact in a way that causes them to work like the elastic bands of a giant sling shot throwing incoming material back out from the black hole.

Tim Finn

We are a band that plays for each other, with each other, and of each other.

Pelle Almqvist

We're not too fond of time off, actually. We're in this band because we like being in it, and time away is good so you don't burn out, but I'll give it two weeks before we want to start working again.