Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Mason

I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

Vic Fuentes

Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

Brendon Urie

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.

Brandon Boyd

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

William Forsythe

All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

Wayne Kramer

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

Wayne Kramer

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.

Nikki Sixx

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

Nikki Sixx

I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

Nuno Bettencourt

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Pete Wentz

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.

We're doing what we can to stay true to our original commitment of offering new and emerging bands an opportunity to perform before a live audience, ... A lot of these people are truly talented but need the exposure and this music festival's the opportunity for them to get it.

Arlo Guthrie

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Though we don't definitely know the mechanism by which these jets are produced, our findings are supportive of the idea that magnetic field lines interact in a way that causes them to work like the elastic bands of a giant sling shot throwing incoming material back out from the black hole.

Thom Yorke

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.

Chino Moreno

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Trent Reznor

When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

Trent Reznor

I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.

Chris Robinson

Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we're all on the same page about culture, music and life.

Brandon Flowers

People who were in their 20s back in the '80s have told us that we remind them of their favorite bands from when they were younger, ... I understand them. When I was a kid I loved those bands, too. We have that in common with the people who come out and see us.

One of the things we're trying to do with these games is showcase what makes them different than a game at Ohio State or USC. And the things that make them different are the fans, the bands and the atmosphere. These are Historically Black Colleges and Universities and we would be missing the point if we would go in and treat them exactly like we would treat a game at Ohio State.

LaMarr Woodley

Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

What we're doing tonight is celebrating free expression. We're having bands come up and play music because we value that free expression.

There are more guns in the pockets of more people, in the waist bands of all kinds of people. They are finding their way into younger kids' hands as well.

Michael Gudinski

There are few bands who could rival Green Day in popularity right now.

John Meyers

Memphis Smoke has some of the best live bands and singers in Metro Detroit,

John Tesh

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.

Getting the bands in the fist place because we started late ... it was a challenge. I'm not saying it was easy but (organizing) it went smoothly.

J. Taylor

Friday and Saturday, we bring in bands that are well known around town. Mostly in the jazz genre.

Friends of mine take cross-country trips to see their favorite bands or to see a friend, or to go to spring training. You put the music on, get a nice beverage and just go. People forget how much there is to see.

John Varvatos

I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.