Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corin Tucker

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

Dave Mustaine

I do have a feeling about bands that cannot get it on, ... When I was a kid, I had guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Michael Schenker, Angus Young. Hot players. You can't name one guitar player in any of the new bands that is a virtuoso.

comes out of pain and difficult times, and the humiliations and the way people get through them and band together as a family in response.

Jerome Charyn

I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.

Henry Mancini

If it calls for a Madison or a Twist, I'll do it. And if it calls for a tone row or anything in surreal music I'll do that, too. But the dance band is what has given me the kind of little edge towards the jazz field.

Martin Freeman

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that. I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

I did a double bill at the Hotel with him, and we became fast friends, ... I played in his band when he went to Europe. He's kind of like a rock star over there. That trip gave me the energy to go hard again.

Dan Hawkins

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

Neal Doughty

I can't think of many bands that can do that for five years without egos blowing up, but it's still working. We went about a year without seeing them (while touring with Cheap Trick), and we really missed them.

Joe Beck

I don't think the bands that hired me liked the sound, I didn't enjoy the experience, and as far as I know, none of the things we did together ever hit the charts, ... But what the hey, the money was good.

I don't think that that's really ever been something that this band has been about. We're not really a shock rock band. We're not painting ourselves up weird or having any kind of wacky gimmick to what we do.

Carly Patterson

I'd really like to meet Pete from the band Fall Out Boy, ... But really, the best part of the year was that I really loved, well, feeling loved by everyone.

I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

I am not just jumping on the bandwagon for the sake of playing politics. I believe that all people should be moral when they work in government.

David Roth

I AM NOT THIS WAY, THE WAY I AM, BECAUSE I'M IN A BAND. I'M IN A BAND BECAUSE I'M THIS WAY.

Steve Albini

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members. Or if the drummer was the original member, and it was a surf band -- I don't care. The upfront guys really matter to me.

I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members, ... Or if the drummer was the original member, and it was a surf band -- I don't care. The upfront guys really matter to me.

Vivian Campbell

I... consider it a great privilege to be part of a band who, as a fan, I have watched grown from young hopefuls to a bona fide rock institution.

Sebastian Bach

I could never want to be in a band where the ultimate good job I could do is to really impersonate somebody a lot. What kind of a life is that?

Ryan Hall

I competed in 2004. I was disappointed because it seemed like a popularity contest. Bands weren't judged on sound.

Evgeny Morozov

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

Evan Dando

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Jack Black

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

Phil Collen

But you shouldn't forget what it's about - for a musician, it is about self-expression. If you can make it work in a band format, it's incredible.

Home football games can drive me crazy, ... We have to organize every pre- and post-game event, and some can be quite large, like band day this Saturday.

Being in the band is like coming back for a family reunion every spring.

James Moody

Being in Dizzy's band was very enjoyable. But quite honestly, I had no idea at the time that things would turn out the way they did. When you are with someone for as long as we were together, the things you talk about and learn from them don't happen all at once. Do you know the reason for time? Well it's to prevent everything from happening at once.

Higher-quality telemetry coupled with high bandwidth communications means we can collect information in real time, as it is happening.

Calls started coming in, letters started coming in. This was their band and they were dog wrong for letting us leave.

Josh Homme

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

Roger Waters

be given the opportunity to put the band back together, even if it's only for a few numbers.

I'm very proud of helping to bring about the three-class system in South Dakota. It provides options for more players to be seen, more opportunities for players, cheerleaders, bands and cheering sections.