358 Quotes About Bands

  • Author Steve Albini
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    I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

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  • Author Wayne Allen
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    Throughout the tour, the bands pick up a larger following. Hopefully, by the time they come here, they will be even more popular.

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  • Author Action Bronson
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    I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

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  • Author Anthony Bailey
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    Eventually I wouldn't mind getting some local bands or hosting karaoke on Thursday nights,

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  • Author Beck
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    The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

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  • Author Bible Bible
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    I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

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  • Author Bill Bass
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    My club reggae shows were going very good. Every show I did was selling out, ... Barry said 'Why don't you take a bunch of these bands and take them up to Red Rocks?' I said 'Barry, that's never going to work. There's no way to sell that many tickets for reggae.'

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  • Author Brandon Boyd
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    No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

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  • Author Brian Bell
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    Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

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