Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Cobain

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Kurt Cobain

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

Elliott Smith

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

Hayley Williams

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

Joan Jett

Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

Joan Jett

Disharmony is natural in any band.

So everyone can see the tradition that our band has.

Krist Novoselic

Smells Like Teen Spirit. Well, it was a phenomenon. I think a lot of it was timing as what was going on in the music business. And a lot of the Sunset Strip hair bands were past their prime and people were ready for something new. Nirvana always tried to be sincere.

Justin Sane

That's exactly how we wanted it to be. And I think they knew what they were signing. At this point, I'm convinced that they didn't sign us to try to mold us into something we're not. They knew they were signing a political punk band that had things they wanted to say.

Emma Anderson

Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.

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.

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

An old place (chosen in the 1790s as the site for the University of North Carolina) that's now a huge Tar Heels sports and party town (catch a bluegrass band at one of the bars on Franklin Street),

David Gilmour

Any squabble Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention, then it's got to be worthwhile.

And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

An events director is vital to our station. Their purpose is to call bands and organize shows together for the radio station.

Aaron Brooks

As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts. We'll band together as a team. We want to go out there and shed a lot of blood, sweat and tears. We want to make our people proud of us. We feel like that is our civic duty.

Nick Hexum

Other bands will have one band practice before they go on tour,

Max Mayfield

Often when you get hurricanes moving like this in the eastern Gulf, we'll have some isolated tornadoes in the rain bands well away from the center,

Richie Sambora

After you come see this band live, you're going to be converted.

The music is really bigger than us, because it did have an impact on people. This is something we can have forever. It doesn't have to be the same struggling band situation, which is hard to maintain.

The musical directors of the program just got sent our album, and they just liked it and they wanted us on the show. But we looked at the list of bands that they turned down for us, and it was just weird !

A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another.

After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a band with R.L. So I just called and said, 'What if I just moved to Kansas City?'

Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to be in a band like the Eagles.

Andy Summers

Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual guitar stylings as had been previously heard.

Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.

Fixed mortgage rates stayed in a narrow, historically low, band in February.

Kian Egan

Five years ago, boy bands could get away with having one good vocalist and four good looking guys. Nowadays, it's not about that. It's a lot more about the music, the sound. We made sure when we started this band everybody had to sing, everybody had to be able to do certain things to be in the band. Everybody had to really, really want what we're doing today.

Johnny Marr

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

Every time we tour it's like starting over. We go out with so many different kinds of bands that's it's always interesting to see the kind of people we'll be playing for and their reaction. So far, it's always worked. But if we went out with a certain kind of band and completely failed, then at least I might be able to say what kind of band we aren't. But thankfully, it hasn't happened yet.

There was a band called the National Youth of Orchestra who did a version of Queen's 'We Will Rock You,' ... They were good. It was different.

Some people think girls can't rock and we're here to prove them wrong. We're a real rock band and, really, rock needs more girls anyway.