Bands Quotes

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron

Hope, Fear, Nothing

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
Doug Coupland

Music, Failure, Big

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana

Good, Art, Kindness

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Music, Play, Punk

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
Robert Plant

Night, Put, Playing

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
Billy Corgan

Best, Bad, Saying

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David Byrne

Different, Another, Started

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
David Byrne

Music, Law, Guitar

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Today, After

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
Joan Jett

Music, Great, Put

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
Joan Jett

Time, Tough, Finding

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.
Jonathan Davis

Trying, Play, Bring

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.
Jonathan Davis

Great, Rock, Making

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
Gene Simmons

Place, England, Thousands

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
Angus Young

Past, Stage, Pimple

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Money, Rules, Changes

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.
Kesha

Trying, Boy, Dudes

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.
Layne Staley

Heart, Break, Seattle

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
Jonathan Cain

Music, Everything, Create

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
Adam Sandler

School, Rock, Wanted

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Hate, Stupid, End

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
Eddie Izzard

Music, Great, Pretty

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
Elton John

Work, Today, Hard

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.
Lester Bangs

Mean, America, Start

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
Eric Clapton

Great, Place, Sense

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
Ian MacKaye

Music, Money, Different

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
Eddie Vedder

Work, Career, Why

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.
Rashida Jones

Marriage, Industry, Feels

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Elizabeth Warren

Work, Someone, Everything

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
David Lee Roth

Rock, Minds, Truly

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