Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was telling us all that he loved us, and we told him it was OK, he could go to all his friends, all the other band leaders, and his parents.

Steve Miller

If the songs are really good and the band sounds great, people are like, 'Hey, we've gotta go back and see that!'

Raine Maida

If that's all it does, is get you slightly interested, it's a step in the right direction. I think the band has always walked that line between earnest and incredibly pretentious. I've definitely been guilty of both. On this record we tried to fall on the earnest side.

If the bands hadn't come, the crowd wouldn't have followed.

Nick Cave

I always heard it musically, and I guess it's written rhythmically as well ... It's very similar to the way my band operates. There are moments of intense violence and there are also moments of long, lyrical, quiet sadness.

He would book a band even if they didn't draw, hoping to draw a clientele.

He saw this incredible band of clouds and the moon, and he slammed on the brakes.

He doesn't play like a freshman. I'm proud of the way we gutted it out. Being down eight, nine,10, whatever, the crowd was into it, the band was going nuts, somehow, some way, we found a way to win. That's what you've got to do in playoff time.

Mark Bryan

Having Darius in the band is a wonderful luxury. We can run the gamut stylistically, but never stray too far from our sound, because once he starts singing, it is Hootie & the Blowfish.

There is no friction between band members about their health, image or what they wear on stage,

We're pretty much the only band in the world that's fusing hip-hop and spoken word. If there's another band doing it, we'd like to meet them and do a show with them.

What we're doing tonight is celebrating free expression. We're having bands come up and play music because we value that free expression.

There are more guns in the pockets of more people, in the waist bands of all kinds of people. They are finding their way into younger kids' hands as well.

Michael Gudinski

There are few bands who could rival Green Day in popularity right now.

Steve Winwood

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

Steve Winwood

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Teddy Thompson

My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I'm still nowhere near that point. Because I didn't have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.

Zac Hanson

We've been involved in starting a web site called 'Are You Listening?' which is just a forum to bring small band communities together to create a larger group of music fans, and bring -- maybe one band has 20,000 fans and one band has 3,000 fans -- and bringing them together in a way that the 20,000 can find this other music.

We really got the market oversold after the last couple of weeks. We have stretched the rubber band enough on the downside to get some upside bounce.

Butch Vig

We're a bunch of geeks. We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell you, so it's an honor to do the theme song for such a cool international spy.

Butch Vig

We're a bunch of geeks, ... We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell you, so it's an honor to do the theme song for such a cool international spy.

We're able to do it a little different. Not too many bands sound like the early new wave of (Elvis) Costello and the Cars. This is our contribution to the whole new, retro revival.

Billy Cox

We're a band of Gypsies, we come from everywhere.

Richie Sambora

We're a band of brothers. I think that people want to see people stay together. They want to be entertained by people that are staying together, and people that have camaraderie. We still like each other. That's pretty unbelievable after 22 years.

We're a roots band with a heavy fiddle base. We're definitely a good drinking band. If you like good music, like to dance and have a good time, come see us.

We're a rock band to begin with and that's still the core of what we do.

Jeff Davis

We're a real rock band with punk influences.

Butch Vig

We had no intention of it being a full-time band or of even touring. We just thought, let's make a cool, interesting record,

Matt Taylor

We didn't want the overnight radio hit success thing. We wanted to build it. We want to tour. We've been a band for years. We want to get that crowd. We want a devoted, good fan base, and we've just been doing it and doing it. It just feels so much better. It's like you work harder and it's more earned. It feels real. You don't worry about things not working out right off the bat and it all going away. I just feel better about what we're doing.

We have real grass root influences: blues, folk, real rock 'n roll. We all love the Grateful Dead. That is probably our biggest influence. Other influences of the band include the Doors, Pink Floyd and Sublime.

I actually made the band in fourth grade. I was the only fourth grader to make it.

I also think being in a band in general has more to do with team sports, in a strange way. It's like being in this team activity. That traditionally was not the domain of women or girls.

He knows the secrets to what makes the band what it is.