Famous Quotes & Sayings

The musical directors of the program just got sent our album, and they just liked it and they wanted us on the show. But we looked at the list of bands that they turned down for us, and it was just weird !

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

They're one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

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.

Keith Buckley

They put Buffalo on the map for this kind of music. All these bands growing up around here looked up to them and just looked out for each other.

All of our friends in American bands asked, 'What on Earth were you doing?'

A lot of bands go to Europe and play the festivals.

Debbie Harry

A lot of the bands were really, really different and a lot of them actually didn't become huge but I think were hugely influential.

Billie Armstrong

A lot of rock bands had to step up to the plate and create a stronger message. That's the reason that hip-hop is so dominating, is that there's a true message behind what they're doing.

Joe Elliott

A lot of these bands were huge in Britain but never really made it big in the States,

Jonny Greenwood

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

There was so much excitement for music at the time, and much of it had to do with the Beatles. The Beatles inspired probably more bands than we will ever know, and they certainly inspired me.

There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.

Diane Cilento

There were huge big bands like Count Basie, and I used to go from the theatre to Birdland, and they all knew me. I loved the big band sound.

There were five bands at the inaugural show that drew over 150 teens and young adults.

There were several independent judges -- some of them from Brook Mays Music -- that selected 24 bands out of 60, then 12 and finally three.

There's a lot of bands in this school who would like to participate.

There's a large segment of the population that doesn't realize what an influence Folkways had on a number of bands that they listen to. And from the Folkways point of view, this really carries on the folk tradition -- the idea that it's an oral history and everything is passed from generation to generation.

You're bound out of 10 bands playing to find one you really enjoy. It's $5 at the most to go see 10 bands. If you're going to do something great for the community, you might as well get some culture out of it.

Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.

Kian Egan

Five years ago, boy bands could get away with having one good vocalist and four good looking guys. Nowadays, it's not about that. It's a lot more about the music, the sound. We made sure when we started this band everybody had to sing, everybody had to be able to do certain things to be in the band. Everybody had to really, really want what we're doing today.

Every time we tour it's like starting over. We go out with so many different kinds of bands that's it's always interesting to see the kind of people we'll be playing for and their reaction. So far, it's always worked. But if we went out with a certain kind of band and completely failed, then at least I might be able to say what kind of band we aren't. But thankfully, it hasn't happened yet.

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.

Kiefer Sutherland

We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.

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.

We knew a lot of the bands that were playing this year. It's cool to hang out. That's always a good thing about Warped Tour.

Throughout the tour, the bands pick up a larger following. Hopefully, by the time they come here, they will be even more popular.