Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Brown

It was in 1996, and we'd just gotten to the end of our thing. We'd been together for 10 years. You know, I did quit back in '93, but the band persuaded me to stay. So I wasted a couple of years hanging about for people when I should have pursued a solo career.

Clive Davis

It's a very special opportunity for us to work with a band that possesses such an historic legacy.

It's a big shame, because Trixter in my mind were what e real rock n roll band is all about.

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.

Gavin Rossdale

I wanted to do something a little bit harder than Bush, ... It's got a paranoid edge to it. It's a pretty difficult transition to go from my band Bush to this new terrain, this whole other world.

Sometimes you have to have loss leaders. Bands that are quite creative and quite hip. We've always had good ideas of what we do, a vision of how we want to be presented. Virgin has always stuck by that. Some bands are dictated to by their record companies, you know?

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.

Emmylou Harris

In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.

Eddie Trunk

In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

Richard Prince

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

Greg Lake

The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.

The internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder. I think the bands are probably in a stronger position, as they are not so desperate for the record company to magic up the audience. They come with an audience.

The concept behind the band was just to get together. None of us had sung before,

Neal Doughty

The competition started in Chicago in the '60s when lead singer Kevin (Cronin) was in a band in south Chicago and the members of STYX were in another and they were archrivals.

The concert band will present an exciting program of traditional classics, rousing marches, contemporary selections, a featured soloist and patriotic music.

Neal Schon

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

Ritchie Blackmore

I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

Kurt Cobain

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

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.

Jimmy Page

The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.

All of the bands were good and everyone was there for the right reasons.

JT Woodruff

And all the other bands will be wearing make-up except for us.

Johnny Rivers

And all I was doing was playing all those funky blues tunes and rock and roll songs I'd played with my band back in Baton Rouge in the '50s.

Joan Rivers

I’m never without a bandage.