Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

We know there's hundreds of thousands of bands out there. The community we've launched today is in beta, so we want to get to understand the volume.

Hillary Scott

We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I'm sure a lot of bands are like, 'I need my own space.' But we don't. I want to be with these guys forever.

Oscar Isaac

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

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.

Daron Malakian

We wanted to make a record that was a success beyond where we were at. All of my favorite bands evolved, and I really wanted our band to evolve.

We've got quite a few New Orleans bands coming this year.

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of doing it than the other pop bands that are out there right now. It doesn't really sound like pop did five years ago. Guitar is back.

Pete Wentz

I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.

Yeah, it's a dry, raw recording. That's what we want people to hear: a rugged--not a polished--album. So much of today's hard core is nothing but trigger drums and Marshall amps. Most bands can't pull off their sound live, so why use that stuff?

We catch a lot of bands that just need to make some gas money.

We have a lot of fun by local bands and entertainers.

My club reggae shows were going very good. Every show I did was selling out, ... Barry said 'Why don't you take a bunch of these bands and take them up to Red Rocks?' I said 'Barry, that's never going to work. There's no way to sell that many tickets for reggae.'

Andy Williams

Most bands today are too caught up in the way they look. When you come to our show, it's bare bones. We want you to leave with a smile.

That's the hard part. With the distance they did us a disadvantage. Here we are getting home (last night) at 7:30 at night, and we are going to have to leave (tomorrow). That's tough to turn around with cheerleaders and players and coaches and the bands, the pep bands and the administration.

Beck

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

We are doing a kind of battle of the bands. There is always a need for instrument replacement and repair, so there is a need for money to be returned for those types of things. ... It is nice to see the interest of school bands and the effort that is put into getting a group together and getting them out there to perform on the street.

We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was in a different place than all of those other bands that we were being labeled that,

Nicky Byrne

We were lucky to make it but it's even harder to stay successful - there are always new kids on the block. A lot of the new bands want to go to heaven but none of them want to die. No one wants to do that hard work.

We do what we love and there's not any intimidation at all. We've played with other bands that have nothing in common with sounds that we do, and people seem to like it.

Brandon Thomas

We're all kind of last-chance kids. We've all been in other bands before. This is kinda the last hurrah. That dream we all had for so long.

Brandon Phillips

We played at a birthday party that one of our friends was throwing for his wife. It was two bands and six strippers. And I didn't know it beforehand, but the show was outdoors on the porch of the bar.

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.

We have encouraged all entries to incorporate music. We have 52 entries -- everything from bands to homemade floats, professional floats and walkers.

Adam Christopher

'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

The internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder. I think the bands are probably in a stronger position, as they are not so desperate for the record company to magic up the audience. They come with an audience.

All of the bands were good and everyone was there for the right reasons.

JT Woodruff

And all the other bands will be wearing make-up except for us.

Krist Novoselic

Smells Like Teen Spirit. Well, it was a phenomenon. I think a lot of it was timing as what was going on in the music business. And a lot of the Sunset Strip hair bands were past their prime and people were ready for something new. Nirvana always tried to be sincere.

Emma Anderson

Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.