Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rick Moranis

Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.

Platinum is so popular because women always want what their mothers didn't have. They grew up seeing their moms with gold bands so the white metals became very popular.

Lisa Loeb

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, ... Id been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Neko Case

My personal time is the same as my road time and my studio time. Personal time is working and touring. All my closest friends and family are already in the bands that I'm around, anyway.

Rachel Platten

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

Anna Sui

I was very inspired by Goth music, which was kind of this whole thing that happened in the early '80s. There were bands like the Cure, and Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees, but then I also kind of mixed it with Victorian Goth,

Dave Keuning

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.

Mary Timony

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

It is an end of the year celebration for the radio station. There are some really fantastic bands coming and I couldn't be happier with the lineup.

Jeff Nelson

I think we were a good band, and we worked hard. But considering how many other hard-working bands there were, it's very flattering to have somehow percolated up towards the top and still be considered relevant and of interest today.

I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of screw themselves by setting the bar so low, that we can only go so far with music. Instead I feel like our band as people, our personalities, we kind of had the feeling we can do anything and go anywhere.

Nuno Bettencourt

I think it's very cool to discover new bands and find something on the radio that you think is so cool that you go out and buy it.

Marcus Mumford

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

Richie Sambora

I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.

It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.

David Ellefson

I think reuniting original lineups is awesome. Ultimately, that's what people want to see. You know, you see elder statesmen of classic rock doing it whether it be REO SPEEDWAGON or STYX doing it. You know, getting as many of the original members that are still around. You see them doing it, you see metal bands doing it, pop bands DURAN DURAN , everybody's trying to do that. I think what everybody realizes at some point is that if you can make those things work it's really cool. Ultimately, that's what the fans want to see when they go see those bands. They want to relive that piece of their youth or that piece of their life when that band was doing what they do best. So, I think given the right circumstances, those things usually fare pretty well for everybody. And most importantly, the fans are happy about it.

Johnny Ramone

I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.

Dave Navarro

I think if there's a vacancy like that, hopefully it will make bands get more creative, and turn up, as they did in the old days, in empty warehouses and just impromptu showcases that are word-of-mouth and flyer-oriented. Hopefully it can be a good thing. But I'll miss that place.

Joan Osborne

I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could make a living being a blues musician. There were a lot of clubs where you could play this type of music every night. And a lot of roots rock clubs, and bands like the Holmes Brothers, Chris Whitley and Blues Traveler playing opposite sides of the street corner. And a lot of camaraderie. Nobody was thinking of record deals, so there wasn't any feeling of competition.

Joe Perry

(Our music) doesn't sound dated, because there are so many new bands that are trying to replicate a '70s sound or a '60s sound. The playing field is getting kind of leveled. If you want to go out and see what a big rock show can be, we're there to do it.

People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with the best of the young bands today.

People love the music of Styx. Both bands are rock legends, and there are a lot of classic rock fans in the Lehigh Valley.

Spring Fair offers this headline act, as well as daytime stages with lots of high quality local bands that really highlight the energy we want.

Stan Kenton

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

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.

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.

Vivian Campbell

Trying to get an opinion from an A&R guy is like trying to get blood out of a stone! It doesn't breed creativity. As a matter of fact, it would really sicken me if something like the Seattle sound happened, and all of a sudden there's hundreds of bands who wear grungy clothing, have greasy, long hair and sound like their in Black Sabbath. The whole music industry is geared to following the next big thing. It's sad, but that's the business.

Brian Setzer

Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.

Flea

Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

Jurnee Smollett

I love music, and I love drumlines. I like school bands a lot. There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but I'd rather be a band geek. It's a little more interesting.

Chris Cornell

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.