Band Quotes

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
Thom Yorke

Best, Might, Unsaid

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
Trevor Dunn

Time, Good, Grow

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
Dave Brubeck

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.
David Johansen

Full, Shows, Brian

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
Simon Le Bon

Dance, Bomb, Drops

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
Paul Stanley

Great, Enough, Big

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
Rainn Wilson

Time, School, After

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.
Lou Gramm

Good, Great, Real

It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
Ville Valo

Beautiful, Him, Different

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo

Beautiful, Black, Trying

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
Adam Levine

Play, Write, Songs

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
Bob Geldof

Age, Good, Great

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
Martina McBride

Music, Dad, Teen

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
Martina McBride

Music, Dad, Country

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
Jason Mraz

Time, School, Live

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.
Ringo Starr

The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
Idris Elba

Live, Deep, Song

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Buddy Rich

Sit, Drummer, Supposed

I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens

Time, Live, Awesome

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
Don Van Vliet

I loved being in a band.
Adam Ant

I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.
Krist Novoselic

Great, Happy, Bands

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.
Gillian Anderson

Life, Change, Through

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
Wynton Marsalis

Great, School, Father

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.
Jerry Only

Giving, Same, Else

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb

Great, Together, Difficult

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
Levon Helm

Life, Time, Live

I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
Levon Helm

Nice, Played, Drums

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
Levon Helm

Big, Played, Millions

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
Levon Helm

Rock, Before, After

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