The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

I grew up in that band. Some people go to college and get a Master's. I went to My Chem academy, and I feel like I graduated with honors.

When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.

Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.

It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

Since I'm in a band, and I'm not usually in situations where I need to read, it doesn't come up as often, and I don't rely on it as much.

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

Ultimately with our band, it's word of mouth. It seems to be the largest cause of The Hip outbreak - if we can align ourselves with a virus.

I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.

In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

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