Famous Quotes & Sayings

I love dancing and love throwing a party. We're highlighting some of the best bands in the country.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

Damien Hirst

I have a Californian girlfriend and she's into a lot of Californian bands so I listen to that.

Thurston Moore

I find it discouraging to see these bands taking this really simplistic element from Nirvana and employing it to their own success.

Frank Iero

I can't imagine any other bands having better kids than ours, and if they do at least I know our kids can beat up their kids.

I'd been in bands for 30 years. When I met Len, I knew that he had it. I had no idea what it was, but his songs really spoke to me. I'm here because I want to be. You know, stories about lost love and broken hearts have been done a million times in country music, but there's a special quality to the way Len writes about it. It touches me, and it touches my soul.

Michael Franti

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

Geezer Butler

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

Flea

I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

Conor Oberst

In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way.

Warren Haynes

The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the same 14 songs night after night. Our set lists vary drastically, and we keep a log of every set we've played. We try to make every night a different experience.

Kathleen Hanna

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Josh Clark

I was into grunge, the heavy, distorted guitars, bands like Nirvana. Although, we weren't that good. But I wore the flannels, the long underwear, the whole deal.

Quinn Allman

I think it's a little easier for kids to digest than the Warped Tour. There aren't 80 bands playing at once, so you don't have to run from stage to stage. It's more of a concert. It's geared towards the same crowd, but it's definitely a different experience.

I think it just shows the strength and depth of our music program. We've also had many bands that have performed, as well as orchestras. I think it's unusual a town the size of Odessa to have had so many groups invited to perform at this convention.

Courtney Taylor

It bought our freedom, ... Bands have to take out massive loans from record companies to make videos, albums, cover art, web design. Well, we don't have to. We don't have to do anything we don't want to, ever.

Guys representing two bands came to his house one day. One came to the front door, another came to the back door. He went with the one that came to the front door.

There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

Kelly Jones

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

It changes depending on when bands are available.

It cost a lot of money and for the quality of bands that we were getting, I didn't think it was worth the price.

Sam Hughes

I was doing bands from the 7th grade until eleventh grade, actually. From there, started teaching myself the other instruments.

We took the wall down because we wanted to make it so people can sit down at the lunch counter up front and look at the bands in back.

We've gone into hard rock this year, with bands that have number one hits out now. Historically, we have not hit the harder-edge rock with current artists. We've hit the rock with classical performers.

Joe Perry

There aren't a lot of great bands out there that can put on a great rock show. They didn't come up in that environment, in that era before MTV where you really had to be a good live band.

Joe Perry

There aren't a lot of great bands out there that can put on a great rock show, ... They didn't come up in that environment, in that era before MTV where you really had to be a good live band.

Tom Scholz

There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.

We may do a D.J., or karaoke and even small bands maybe, but that would probably be it.

Kristian Bush

Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'

Kellin Quinn

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own right. I have that mentality. too: if a song sounds like something I've already done, then I'll throw it out, because I want each record to be a progression.

Kellin Quinn

It's kinda weird sometimes going on tour with bands because you never really know what to expect.