Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Oates

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

Trevor Rabin

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.

Depeche Mode

Yes, there's a reason why some detractors, and even fans, prefer to call the long-running British band ''Depressed Mode.

Token ring was a very elegant way of sharing bandwidth on a LAN, ... What killed it was LAN switching because all that matters there is price per port. Ethernet was simpler and supported by more vendors, so it was cheaper to build Ethernet chip sets.

Mike Evans

We wanted to start a band where people had fun at the shows.

William Johnson

We've had some students who enjoyed these types of programs so much they've made the pursuit of music a big part of their lives. We've even had some go on to perform with the marching and concert bands at Westmoreland High School.

We've had some forceful statements from within OPEC. The possibility of OPEC releasing further oil in October under the price band mechanism prompted a degree of profit taking this morning.

John Doe

Well, 'help' is the important word there because there were a lot of other bands back in those days doing similar stuff,

We already knew that any soul and jazz band has to go through James Brown. He didn't impart any wisdom -- he mumbled a lot when we talked to him -- but we learned a lot from his performance.

We all started playing in elementary school bands and we haven't forgotten the importance of those experiences. We just feel we want to reach kids as much as possible.

We all sort of came at it from weird angles. Most of the guys in the band played rock music, punk rock, before this. I have a degree in English that I don't use very much anymore. That kind of thing is maybe good for serving you coffee in the morning these days.

Gary Numan

The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wanted a record deal and everybody was signing punk bands, so I started doing it. My own weak pop version of it really, we weren't particularly good or convincing, but that's what I did, and it worked and I got a deal.

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

Alice Cooper

There is so much great rock from the '60s, '70s, a little thinner in the '80s. I can't believe that there are only 40 songs that get played. There is such a variety of music from that era. There are just so many bands that never get played.

Donald Miller

There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place,

John F. Kennedy

We will be playing this New Year's Eve at the American Legion where I first played with my father and several others on New Year's Eve 50 years ago. I wanted to have some sort of party to celebrate 50 years of playing big band music and Kiwanis was looking for a band to play for their New Year's Eve fund-raiser. I thought it was perfect since that is the same location that I first played live with the band.

We come down to play with each other. We'll play on the porch or in the parking lot. We just want to meet bands and play together.

Damian Kulash

We don't want to be the kind of band that requires a lot of massive, corporate dollars to keep us running and promoted. We're trying to build a fan base and community that listens to us and the best way to do that is to tour - we go out and we play and we play and we play and we meet the people that like us and we try to keep the whole thing organic.

Deryck Whibley

we don't want to be a three cord punk band we don't even call ourselves punk.

Jonny Buckland

We don't want to be as big as U2. I like U2. It's a band that still makes good records. We'd like to make a couple more good records.

Jonny Buckland

We don't want to be as big as U2, ... I like U2. It's a band that still makes good records. We'd like to make a couple more good records.

Dierks Bentley

We have fun. I think it spills off into the crowd. Our main job is to have a good time first and foremost as a band - if we're doing that, then everyone at the show will have a good time, too.

We have four bands and each of those have specific requirements for sound and lighting, hotels for the bands, transportation for band members to get their job done.

Brian Ritchie

When I was growing up there weren't any bands who'd been around for 25 years the Rolling Stones had only been around for 15 years. Now, unfortunately, rock's becoming an old person's genre.

We would never underestimate the health and safety issues, but the narrowing of handicap bands has had a positive effect on the issue here.

There has been a constant and dedicated effort by Randy to keep the band current in terms of musical content. And we've been fortunate to have seasoned musicians who can play such a variety of music.

Scott Weiland

When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.

Joe Perry

Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to hear some of the new energy that a band will put into it, but you kind of want to hear some of the basic parts of the song. I mean, that's what makes it the song that you like.

We knew over here it was about silencing the crowd, but today the band played.

We knew making that commitment to take the band down to Houston via airfare would probably put us a shade over budget. That was a conscious decision we made because we were trying to build up our reputation.

Dan Hawkins

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

Hanna Rosin

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

Why in the world would somebody want to eat up your bandwidth listening to radio music over the Internet on PC speakers -- when it's cheaper for the company to go and buy stereos for everybody? When you look at the cost of what these people are doing in terms of bandwidth and Internet access, it's extremely expensive.