In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

Have to stay together, can't switch band, but you can have a boyfriend, have to get a boyfriend..!!!

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

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

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

I have too much respect for the music and for the band and the fans to give anything less than my best.

I don't want to single anyone out. I'll just say that there are a lot of not good band names out there.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.

Share This Page