Top 650 Bands Quotes

When I play solo, that’s when I put it all together. I go through all of the songs that I’ve written wtih all of the different bands; that, for me, tells its own story, and the DVDs really enforce that.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence – laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.

I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.

I’ve always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn’t wear jewellery because it was stupid.

Sadly, I’ve seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

I had a lot of Bengali friends in Delhi. The bands there had Bengali musicians: for example, Indian Ocean. We use to have a good amount of adda and sing songs through the night.

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

I started going to Madame Louise’s, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go – the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

So when bands work with me and it’s 10 o’clock, usually you’d have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it’s my place!

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you’ll work and devote yourself to your craft.

I don’t like it when bands don’t want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that’s cheating everybody, and I think it’s selfish of an artist to do that.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines – they were glued together in my brain.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

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.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we’d be a lot better off.

I’ve got a couple of bands that I’m working on. The one I’m really excited about, we’re called London The Child. It’s folky music and it’s really cool.

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I’ve been around pop music my whole life. I’ve been around all music my entire life.

I’d played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, ‘If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!’ And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

So I’ve had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I wouldn’t know any newer bands. We’re past the pimple stage.

You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it’s all down to how you hold what you wear.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Growing up in the Libya of the 1970s, I remember the prevalence of local bands who were as much influenced by Arabic musical traditions as by the Rolling Stones or the Beatles. But the project of ‘Arabisation’ soon got to them, too, and western musical instruments were declared forbidden as ‘instruments of imperialism.’

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I’ve listened to a lot and whose concerts I’ve been to. I love the experience. I don’t dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

There are so many bands that I’m kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.

Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and on their breaks, they might go see the reggae band that’s right next door. You might get the musicians from the reggae band to sit in with the brass musicians. Everyone is having fun.

Generally speaking, I like all music, but Pink Floyd and Muse are my favorite bands.

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.

One of my favorite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together, and that’s Lil Peep.

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don’t see them on the covers of magazines. I’d heard ‘Silver Machine’ but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called ‘Master Of The Universe’ and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

Right now, I’ve never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we’re all on the same page about culture, music and life.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

A lot of times you’ll hear bands and it’s a different sound coming out than what’s on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

All my favorite bands are the ones that push the limits and boundaries.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn’t get paid for it like they did.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

To be appreciated by a whole ‘nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it’s kind of what I did with the classic bands I love – the ones that influenced me.

I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.