784 Quotes About Band

Truthfully, every band has their different challenges. I think we have ours, and that would be one of them. But I would take our challenges over other bands' challenges.

It's never a second thought. Every single band has something they have to prove to the media and the people. We are very committed to winning. All we want is to have our shot.

The U.S. is more of a continent than a country. There's more musical tradition here...In Sweden, people only come out to shows on the weekends. In the states, people will drive for days to see a band they've never heard play on a Tuesday!

Our fight song was playing and our pep band wasn't even here yet. They did a good job, so I can't complain.

The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wanted a record deal and everybody was signing punk bands, so I started doing it. My own weak pop version of it really, we weren't particularly good or convincing, but that's what I did, and it worked and I got a deal.

After the lukewarm promotion of our last couple of records, we felt nobody at the company really understood us and cared about us. In days past, record companies were committed to working a band over several singles not just giving up if the first single did not set the charts on fire.

I actually made the band in fourth grade. I was the only fourth grader to make it.

Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.

Everybody was in a band in those days, and my father was a professional musician, so it was kind of expected that I would become a musician.