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There's the tradition in jazz of having the “Battle of the Bands” and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands.
It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.
You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
There aren't many good frontmen around anymore. Where are they? I can't think of a really young band with a great front person.
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.
The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.
I like to go to concerts because I love to see my favorite band through the phone of the asshole who's standing in front of me.
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.
Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death.
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.
Me and my two best friends went to see the Ramones in 1979, and two weeks later, I was like, 'We're starting a band. That's it.'
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.
I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.
Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.
The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.
Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.
This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.
Led Zeppelin sounded like nobody else. That spoke to the individuality of the band and the direction Jimmy Page wanted to pursue.
I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.
The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each time.
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.
Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.
I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.
I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.
The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.
I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'
I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?
Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole.
It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.
Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.