Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

It was 1980-'81, ... and I was booking bands for the George Street Grocery. I heard him play once, and he was great. I always tried to hook Sam up with a band.

Jeph Howard

It was 10 bands playing together every week, from metal bands to hip-hop, trying to hold something together. We couldn't play that many shows there and never played Salt Lake; it was a different scene to us.

They were one of the options and after I found out they sold out Madison Square Garden they became much higher than the other bands we were considering.

Rick Elice

They were not taken seriously the way the Beatles were, or the Beach Boys, or the Stones ? bands who were written about.

They've had trouble deciding on a name. But they're good. They play a lot of rock from the late '70s and '80s. They're trying to play music that other bands in the valley don't.

Deron Miller

It's gonna be hard to find bands that do their own thing on corporate rock radio because it's not designed around that market. The majority of people that listen to commercial radio don't care about music and you can't get them to care about music.

Dan Andriano

It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken on that look know where it's coming from. I'm not saying we invented it -- we drew influence from the Damned and the Misfits -- but it wasn't very popular when we started doing it. It's strange, but if you start worrying about stuff like that, it becomes less about being a songwriter and more about trying to control what's going on in some kind of scene.

It's more interesting this way. I don't see the point in replicating the songs like these Dead cover bands do. These songs are made to be interpreted. It's fun for us and the audience.

Earl Wilson

For some kids who never even dreamed of going to college, they come to see the games and black football teams and bands from black colleges, and they see what's possible.

Tom Cavanagh

There's a lot of tribute bands in New York City and not so much around the country. That is why we tour so much.

Philipp Meyer

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

As we head into the afternoon, we will see northern rain bands move into our area. That will produce brief heavy downpours and gusty winds. It is going to be similar to what happened Thursday in terms of seeing some sunshine during points of the day and then other times seeing a real heavy downpour with winds kicking up.

About 27 bands auditioned and 14 made the cut. We have students representing 10 Howard County high schools.

Classic Rock sums it all up. There are a lot of bands that influenced us. We like to mix it up with some modern rock. Basically, we're rock-n-roll.

Greg Garcia

A lot of local bookers don't want to take the time to meet the bands face-to-face, but more or less I like to put a face to a name.

Steve Erickson

The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys.

William Johnson

The driving energy and sheer exuberance of these bands will produce a spellbinding musical event that will be enjoyed by the entire family.

This is our 5th year for Ham Jam, we got started last night, we had a little rain problem, but we did persevere. We had our bands play inside, but today is a gorgeous day. And we hope that we have a wonderful day, wonderful weather. It's cool and there's no rain in sight.

Allister is my first show that I'm going to at Syracuse. I haven't seen Allister since my junior year of high school. It's really convenient they are coming here, and it's nice to have bands which aren't so known to the mainstream.

Billie Armstrong

All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces.

The Hopefuls have become one of the more popular bands in Minnesota. It's sort of the critics' favorite band, and this happened sort of out of the blue for us. We didn't expect anything like this, so now we're strategizing differently about how to go about promoting it.

Eugene Hutz

You could get tapes of the Western bands on the black market. But it was not easy. And most people did not know this music existed.

We're trying to get more bands to stop by and perform or just sign autographs.

Patty Griffin

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.