Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Lewis

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

You're going to drift from band to band in high school. And hopefully, in one of them, you'll find people you'll have chemistry with.

You're bound out of 10 bands playing to find one you really enjoy. It's $5 at the most to go see 10 bands. If you're going to do something great for the community, you might as well get some culture out of it.

Larry Walker

Your band is going to a local restaurant to get the waste oil to run its engine, there's folks down in New York City very interested in that.

This is a proud time for the Reynoldsburg band program. Rarely does a small community like ours have the opportunity to be recognized by another country.

Keith Davis

This is the first time we have a headliner that isn't from the Golden Triangle. These guys are a great band and they were really excited to help out.

There was so much excitement for music at the time, and much of it had to do with the Beatles. The Beatles inspired probably more bands than we will ever know, and they certainly inspired me.

Bobby Hatfield

There was James Burton, one of the greatest guitar players around, who played for Elvis years and years. Than there was another guitar player named Glenn Campbell just beginning with us. Billy Preston... he was one of the piano players. Leon Russell was in the band. He was another one of the piano players. We had a lot of people like that just beginning, not even getting any notoriety... they were just in the band and doing recording sessions.

There was a wireless Internet bandwagon and people went crazy on the capital expenditures side. But downloading movies to your PDA or cell phone turned out to be just marketing hype,

There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.

Tom Cooper

There were no band concerts they just didn't plan events, ... The community knew that every member of the department would have a commitment that night. They kind of planned around it.

Diane Cilento

There were huge big bands like Count Basie, and I used to go from the theatre to Birdland, and they all knew me. I loved the big band sound.

There were five bands at the inaugural show that drew over 150 teens and young adults.

There were a band of misfits. They didn't set out to conquer the world or get in the Library of Congress. They were surprised by their success. Sure, Cobain would be happy to be in the Library of Congress, but he would be complaining about it.

There were two people who thought they were the greatest band in the world -- Brian Epstein and John Lennon, ... Both of them felt that they'd last into the next century.

There were several independent judges -- some of them from Brook Mays Music -- that selected 24 bands out of 60, then 12 and finally three.

Ed Kowalczyk

There's a comfort level in the band with being a big band. It's given us a renewed energy.

There's a closeness in the miners that's unexplainable. They're a band of brothers.

Eric Carmen

A certain mythology has grown up around the band after 30 years. We didn't want to come back until we felt we could play and not pop that bubble.

It seems like a lot of the bands in town will look at a band and go, 'Yeah, that was awesome. Let's do that, specifically.' And we obviously have our influences, but at the same time we're like, 'How can we be better? What can we do that nobody else wants to do?'

James Corden

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

It's a tremendous opportunity, ... There's no lower cost, high bandwidth way to reach consumers.

It's a true performance parade. The band and dance troupes will all be competing for first place. We want to offer something for everyone from the 2-year-old to the 92-year-old.

It was definitely a weird experience when a song goes to pop radio like that. The rock side of things is bands on the road, playing, partying and doing it because they love music. The pop thing was, like, how can we make money?

Jerry Harrison

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Jerry Harrison

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.

Jerry Harrison

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

Jerry Harrison

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Ezra Koenig

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

Florence Welch

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

Jack White

I won't join another band again.

Jeff Healey

Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

Freddie Highmore

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.