Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Martin

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

Jewel

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

Chris Hardwick

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

George Strait

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

George Carlin

The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!

Gene Simmons

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

Gene Simmons

Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

Tubby Smith

He's wearing a bandage on his left hand. The bone he broke in his hand has mended, but he's wearing protection and he looked good in practice yesterday. He'll be a big help.

Generally it's not as much about being an ensemble band as it is inspiring the kids.

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Gary is doing fine after his surgery, and we want him to take the time to properly recover so he can return to his first love, which is the band he started 30 years ago. For all the fans who've bought tickets to the upcoming shows and who've been waiting for the new album, hang in there -- we'll be back soon.

Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country.

Fred Durst

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

Even those over 50 joined the bandwagon changing their minds about South Africa's economic prospects by 9 points to 21.

Between the bands and people volunteering, about 60 people will be involved in the benefit.

Beyond the next six months is when I think it will be hairy. That's when we start instituting group policy. For instance, some school districts may not have the bandwidth to handle group policy.

Everything sounds dated right now to me, like the songs you hear on the radio and the type of pop punk bands that's going on right now. I feel like five years from now, that's going to seem like, 'Oh I remember exactly when that took place.' I wanted to create something that would seem a little more timeless.

Bill Wyman

Everybody in the band does it for the same reasons, as I do, to have a good time and send the crowd home with smiles on their faces.

Ginger Baker

Beautiful summer afternoon, loads of people -- well over 100,000. Happy, relaxed, laid back gig -- not loud on stage. Just pleasant volume unlike (the) preceding band I played with.

The most important thing for this band is that it is playing. I liken playing in this band to sitting around a poker table. The game is still going on. It goes on no matter who shows up. It's cool if different players are part of this. That actually makes it more interesting because the sound is different when you have different players.

Stop and think about a new rock band just trying to come up with a name that's not been used. There's only so much you can do in one direction.

Ricky Phillips

Styx is a very exclusive club. The band doesn't think of it as the new Styx -- they think of it as a continuum.

Someone said we were too good looking to be a rock band which is the weirdest thing I have ever heard in my life,

Now, it's time to break through as a live performance band. Which I think inevitably happens to any band that I consider to be great and last a long time. That's just a natural progression.

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Jennifer Egan

Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.

Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.

Jason Isbell

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Neil Finn

The thing about bands is they sometimes go through hard times but they see it through. This is the line-up that saw it through.

Art Alexakis

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.

Laura Mvula

I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

Rob Thomas

I used to do lots of coke. ... You'd be tired and you'd do it just to stay out and go to bars and meet girls and have a good time. ... There's a two-year period at the beginning of this band that I don't even remember. I can't even imagine what the shows were like.

(I've) already got good response to it, got several sponsors here in town (who are) going to jump on the bandwagon and be part of it.

I wanted the band to be more than what we were, and I think we really could have accomplished more in the future. Unfortunately, things changed and we decided just to pursue other opportunities.