Band Quotes

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. (Matt Cameron)
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance. View quote
Sid Vicious
We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! View quote
Amy Lee
I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more. View quote
Jack White
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. View quote
Travis Barker
Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band. View quote
Alex Van Halen
There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. View quote
Michael Hutchence
The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird. View quote
Alvin Lee
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. (Alvin Lee)
Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock. View quote
Ann Wilson
Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band. View quote
Ann Wilson
When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to. View quote
Bootsy Collins
I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag? View quote
Colin Greenwood
You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school. View quote
Colin Mochrie
I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. View quote
Caroline Corr
I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest. View quote
Glenn Tipton
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. View quote
Greg Ginn
But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time. View quote
Griffin Dunne
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday. (Gwen Stefani)
Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York. View quote
Ikue Mori
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. View quote
Lindsey Buckingham
Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase. View quote
Daisy Berkowitz
If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices. View quote
Michael Schenker