Famous Quotes & Sayings

I saw him at Sun City and didn't really know what to expect. But when he came out with a six-piece band, played the clarinet in a Big Band style and told these wonderful stories of his life in show business, it all ends up as one great big deal.

OPEC has shown itself to be market-savvy by recognizing that waiting for the price band mechanism to kick-in could cause a slump well below $22 a barrel,

Guy Berryman

On 'X&Y,' we're utilizing the band a bit more, ... In the same way that when you listen to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, just for example, it's all about the band. It's a development and a natural organic growth from where we left off.

Dario Argento

Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They were very talented and I wanted to give them a break.

Shannon Hoon

We never were the band that believed in making all that money and becoming stars.

We never set out to write a better album, it just happened that way. We never write a 'punk' song, we're just a rock band doing what we do.

We'll also have performances from White and Lumpkin County high schools. All of Forsyth's middle school bands will also perform that night, so it should be a really great night of music.

Billy Corgan

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

Carrie Brownstein

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

Bill Burr

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

That's the main thing that we need to be able to do. Once something isn't going your way, that's when you need to band together and turn it around.

That's the hard part. With the distance they did us a disadvantage. Here we are getting home (last night) at 7:30 at night, and we are going to have to leave (tomorrow). That's tough to turn around with cheerleaders and players and coaches and the bands, the pep bands and the administration.

I was real inspired by The Cramps, a band from Tacoma called Girl Trouble and Tom's band, the U Men.

Johnny Marr

I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.

My club reggae shows were going very good. Every show I did was selling out, ... Barry said 'Why don't you take a bunch of these bands and take them up to Red Rocks?' I said 'Barry, that's never going to work. There's no way to sell that many tickets for reggae.'

Paul Myers

Most companies have enough bandwidth to handle all their work plus a little extra for emergencies, but they pay a premium for going over their allocation, so it really becomes a matter of money.

Andy Williams

Most bands today are too caught up in the way they look. When you come to our show, it's bare bones. We want you to leave with a smile.

Michelle is a very talented Irish dancer. Chris Foster has the same influences as mine. He's mostly interested in 1960s rock n' roll. The youngest member of the band is not yet 30 and the oldest is approaching 50, so we have a broad range of musical experience. We all bring those different influences in when we play.

Who knows? Maybe Hillary Clinton saw the band in Park Ridge.

I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

It has progressively gotten worse, especially for bands like us, that have a large following. We have decided to take it into our own hands.

Charles Lewis

I thought it would be a nice chance to see a lot of local bands perform.

John was our brother and our friend, and we love him and miss him very much. He gave everything to this band and is someone who is always in our hearts and minds.

Trey Anastasio

John Lennon is the model for what I'm trying to do; that he grew and changed, ... It's been hard because you left your friends and I don't see them very much anymore, but look what happened with 1/8 Lennon) and those albums. They were struggling to progress beyond the greatest band that ever existed.

Marching band today isn't your grandmother or grandfather's marching band where the band walked out onto the field, stopped and played a couple of songs and walked off the field. These students are moving thousands of steps at high tempos all the while playing an instrument or using a piece of color guard equipment during one show.

Rachel Platten

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

Anna Sui

I was very inspired by Goth music, which was kind of this whole thing that happened in the early '80s. There were bands like the Cure, and Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees, but then I also kind of mixed it with Victorian Goth,

Richie Sambora

I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.

I was in a band where the lead singer was insanely popular,

Bob Schneider

I was in a band that wanted to make the move to Austin, because they had heard about the scene there, ... They kind of talked me into leaving school and moving. And then, at the last minute, they decided they didn't want to go. So I went there alone.

Chris Stapleton

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

I was in a band at the time, and I wanted to do that. I guess it took me some time to figure out that I was a better comedian than I was a drummer.

Rusty Anderson

It feels very loose, in a good way. There's a very large comfort level with the band because we've been doing it for a while now. There's just a lot of trust between everybody.