358 Quotes About Bands

  • Author Arlo Guthrie
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    Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

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  • Author Billy Goodwin
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    The Christian music genre has gotten big enough that bands don't have to worry about compromising themselves or watering down what they are saying. They can just be true to what they feel in their heart.

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  • Author Boy George
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    In the '60s everybody wanted to be the Beatles or the Stones, in the '70s there were bands everybody tried to emulate, like Led Zeppelin. And I think in the '80s you had lots of bands that had quite individual sounds, ... '80s Rewind.

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  • Author CeeLo Green
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    So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

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  • Author David Garver
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    We know there's hundreds of thousands of bands out there. The community we've launched today is in beta, so we want to get to understand the volume.

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  • Author Eric Garland
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    Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.

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  • Author Greg Garcia
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    A lot of local bookers don't want to take the time to meet the bands face-to-face, but more or less I like to put a face to a name.

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  • Author Jon Gerych
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    It's an old bank building redesigned for dancing, bands and eating. We will do the environment, bringing in real cool modern furniture, sofas and seating to make it look more like a nightclub.

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