Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Mumford

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

Andrew Whitworth

I think it's neat to give the band something to enjoy and hang around for after the game. It's a way to give our thanks to the student section and being able to say that to them. It's a good start to a good tradition.

It isn't a band that was going for anything. The only thing we were going for was an instrumental groove, and that's the most specific we got. People would just throw some idea out and we were all open to it.

I think that those bands are really pushing the local scene forward. They are really pushing the envelope and they are great people.

I think some time after 1969 or so, the band started to lose its light. But I'll tell you what, boy- on the way up, it was happening.

Robert Cray

I think that it's a good thing. I think it's great people can't put a tag to it, ... I think what we do is better off being called Robert Cray Band music.

It is nonsense to even think that what the band wear for their shows at this point in their career is even a talking point.

Dave Keuning

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.

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.

It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.

Chris Squire

I think partly the problem with Yes - and I've had this discussion with people from the Hall of Fame in the past - is that it's going to be difficult to decide how many of the members of Yes you're gonna put in it and how many you're not because of the extensive membership of the band through the years.

David Ellefson

I think reuniting original lineups is awesome. Ultimately, that's what people want to see. You know, you see elder statesmen of classic rock doing it whether it be REO SPEEDWAGON or STYX doing it. You know, getting as many of the original members that are still around. You see them doing it, you see metal bands doing it, pop bands DURAN DURAN , everybody's trying to do that. I think what everybody realizes at some point is that if you can make those things work it's really cool. Ultimately, that's what the fans want to see when they go see those bands. They want to relive that piece of their youth or that piece of their life when that band was doing what they do best. So, I think given the right circumstances, those things usually fare pretty well for everybody. And most importantly, the fans are happy about it.

Ciara Bravo

I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before.

Johnny Ramone

I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.

It doesn't take a whole lot of leadership to jump on the bandwagon and criticize President Bush when everyone else is, too.

Dave Navarro

I think if there's a vacancy like that, hopefully it will make bands get more creative, and turn up, as they did in the old days, in empty warehouses and just impromptu showcases that are word-of-mouth and flyer-oriented. Hopefully it can be a good thing. But I'll miss that place.

Rivers Cuomo

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.

Joan Osborne

I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could make a living being a blues musician. There were a lot of clubs where you could play this type of music every night. And a lot of roots rock clubs, and bands like the Holmes Brothers, Chris Whitley and Blues Traveler playing opposite sides of the street corner. And a lot of camaraderie. Nobody was thinking of record deals, so there wasn't any feeling of competition.

I think from the very beginning it was new and special to us, and that's all that mattered. From the beginning, we named our band Of A Revolution, and that might have sounded very lofty, but for us, it was our own revolution. This was music we wanted to be playing, and from the beginning, we knew there was something there.

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.

Midge Ure

I didn't want to be stuck to rigid tempos. I mean, a band should speed up and slow down. They shouldn't do it too much, but they do.

I didn't want people sitting at the breakfast table breaking out into song. They are at the recording studio and nightclub. The band is in one way or another performing their material.