Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Doyle

With the combination of free streaming video and online betting pools, companies could be faced with serious bandwidth and productivity issues, not to mention many organizations' prohibition of Internet gambling in their company policy. Our customers will be able to continue with business-as-usual and not worry about employee distractions on game day.

Dweezil Zappa

We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so.

We've only played 10 or 12 shows with Matt. Markku left a month and a half, maybe two, ago. We met Matt through Chris, our drummer. They both come from up north (the Bay area), and Matt was playing in a band called Tsunami Bomb. He was great, so we called him in.

We opened for Johnny Mathis at the Twin Coaches, ... Can you imagine a rock band like us and Johnny Mathis on the same bill! We always appreciated that opportunity.

Robert Glasper

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.

Larry Wachtel

We've been down for six weeks on the S&P 500, and if you stretch a rubber band enough, it's going to snap back, ... The question is 'is this a head fake or will it continue?'

Jerry Only

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

We come down to play with each other. We'll play on the porch or in the parking lot. We just want to meet bands and play together.

Damian Kulash

We don't want to be the kind of band that requires a lot of massive, corporate dollars to keep us running and promoted. We're trying to build a fan base and community that listens to us and the best way to do that is to tour - we go out and we play and we play and we play and we meet the people that like us and we try to keep the whole thing organic.

Deryck Whibley

we don't want to be a three cord punk band we don't even call ourselves punk.

Jonny Buckland

We don't want to be as big as U2. I like U2. It's a band that still makes good records. We'd like to make a couple more good records.

Jonny Buckland

We don't want to be as big as U2, ... I like U2. It's a band that still makes good records. We'd like to make a couple more good records.

Dierks Bentley

We have fun. I think it spills off into the crowd. Our main job is to have a good time first and foremost as a band - if we're doing that, then everyone at the show will have a good time, too.

We have four bands and each of those have specific requirements for sound and lighting, hotels for the bands, transportation for band members to get their job done.

Mike Evans

We wanted to start a band where people had fun at the shows.

William Johnson

We've had some students who enjoyed these types of programs so much they've made the pursuit of music a big part of their lives. We've even had some go on to perform with the marching and concert bands at Westmoreland High School.

We've had some forceful statements from within OPEC. The possibility of OPEC releasing further oil in October under the price band mechanism prompted a degree of profit taking this morning.

John Doe

Well, 'help' is the important word there because there were a lot of other bands back in those days doing similar stuff,

We already knew that any soul and jazz band has to go through James Brown. He didn't impart any wisdom -- he mumbled a lot when we talked to him -- but we learned a lot from his performance.

We all started playing in elementary school bands and we haven't forgotten the importance of those experiences. We just feel we want to reach kids as much as possible.

We all sort of came at it from weird angles. Most of the guys in the band played rock music, punk rock, before this. I have a degree in English that I don't use very much anymore. That kind of thing is maybe good for serving you coffee in the morning these days.

Gary Numan

The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wanted a record deal and everybody was signing punk bands, so I started doing it. My own weak pop version of it really, we weren't particularly good or convincing, but that's what I did, and it worked and I got a deal.

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

Alice Cooper

There is so much great rock from the '60s, '70s, a little thinner in the '80s. I can't believe that there are only 40 songs that get played. There is such a variety of music from that era. There are just so many bands that never get played.

Donald Miller

There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place,

Dan Hawkins

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

Hanna Rosin

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

Why in the world would somebody want to eat up your bandwidth listening to radio music over the Internet on PC speakers -- when it's cheaper for the company to go and buy stereos for everybody? When you look at the cost of what these people are doing in terms of bandwidth and Internet access, it's extremely expensive.

This tour is for all the fans, it's pretty exciting to do something. We're excited that we got to do this band for as long as we have.

Alex Kapranos

We didn't get our band together because we wanted to sound like any other bands,

Vivian Campbell

Trying to get an opinion from an A&R guy is like trying to get blood out of a stone! It doesn't breed creativity. As a matter of fact, it would really sicken me if something like the Seattle sound happened, and all of a sudden there's hundreds of bands who wear grungy clothing, have greasy, long hair and sound like their in Black Sabbath. The whole music industry is geared to following the next big thing. It's sad, but that's the business.

Tomo Milicevic

Truthfully, every band has their different challenges. I think we have ours, and that would be one of them. But I would take our challenges over other bands' challenges.

Brian Setzer

Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.