Band Quotes

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
Rick Springfield

Success, America, Australia

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black

Made, Beethoven, Distant

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Ville Valo

History, Death, Someone

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
Beth Ditto

Full, Coming, Rainbow

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.
Beth Ditto

Mean, Bored, Living

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
Beth Ditto

Gossip, Said, Listen

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: 'If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it.' But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to. We've always wanted to do a live album because personally, I think we're a way better band live than on record.
Beth Ditto

Live, Gossip, Said

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch

Life, Put, Almost

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
Sammy Hagar

Made, Left, Musicians

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.
Courtney Love

Good, Last, White

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Courtney Love

Music, Comedy, Everybody

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
Craig Ferguson

Friend, Started, Turn

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.
Craig Ferguson

Work, Said, Show

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.
Leona Lewis

Hard, Boy, Dynamics

I'm glad I was never in a band.
Leona Lewis

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
Drew Carey

Kid, Played, Trumpet

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.
Gary Numan

Life, Marriage, Girl

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
Gary Numan

Kids, Along, Street

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.
Jennifer Garner

School, Two, Community

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.
Jarvis Cocker

Feelings, Why, Able

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
Jarvis Cocker

Lost, Control, Wrong

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Gene Simmons

Person, Fire, Research

I won't join another band again.
Jack White

Another, Again, Won

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
Jack White

Music, God, Trying

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.
Sarah McLachlan

Old, Played, Dancing

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.
Sarah McLachlan

Mother, Children, Give

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
Donny Osmond

Music, Today, Fire

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.
Jello Biafra

Done, Behind, Longer

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
Dan Hawkins

Music, Time, Enemy

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.
Mike Shinoda

Music, Pretty, Learned

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