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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band. -- Gene Simmons
Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band. -- Janet Morris
Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never. -- Brad Paisley
Just start dancing and the band will find you. -- Tama J. Kieves
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. -- Michael Connelly
I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music. -- George Strait
I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band -- John Mayer
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. -- Adrian Belew
What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?" "Shut up, Garett." "Yes, ma'am. -- Cindy Gerard
Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point. -- Rick Danko
My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship... -- Rob Schwimmer
At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band. -- Nancy McKeon
My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals. -- Sebastian Bach
Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine. -- Michael Koryta
I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band." -- Gary Jarman
Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.' -- Carmen Electra
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world. -- Noel Gallagher
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. -- Maynard James Keenan
Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer -- Tom Araya
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last. -- Jack Nicklaus
My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band. -- Patti LuPone
The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea. -- John Sebastian
Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members. -- Peter Tork
Throw a pair of Band-Aids over your eyelids, and open your eyes to your wounds. -- Jarod Kintz
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... -- Don McLean
No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul. -- Warren Haynes
We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? -- Jon Bon Jovi
The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around. -- Max Weinberg
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band. -- MaryJanice Davidson
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. -- Yoko Ono
With sunglasses, a hat, and half a pack of Band-Aids, Roger could pass as a human. -- Nadia Higgins
Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid. -- Justin Hartley
... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set! -- Fran Drescher
I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid. -- John Green
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. -- Billy Sherwood
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one. -- Ace Frehley
Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. -- Elton John
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences. -- Layne Staley
I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever. -- Max Weinberg
I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques -- Steve Albini
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. -- Paul Westerberg
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. -- Geezer Butler
I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band. -- Levon Helm
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. -- Bruce Dickinson
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. -- Jonny Greenwood
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band. -- Matt Cameron
I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh? -- Patti LuPone
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. -- Albert Einstein
Don't waste your time or time will waste you. -- Muse
Until the end and from the start." The Lost Boys -- Lilian Carmine
Happiness isn't always easy," he'd said. "But it's a priority. -- Goldy Moldavsky
You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything. -- Nellie McKay
Jealousy, turning saints into the seaSwimming through sick lullabiesChoking on your alibis -- The Killers
We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs. -- The Gaslight Anthem
I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory. -- Hope Solo
The sky is full of dreams, but you don't know how to fly. -- The Killers
You never live, you never learn, you never shine if you never burn. -- The Killers
I don't wanna be the center of anything, just a part of something bigger. -- Amber Run
Fee-fi-fo-fum, you better run and hideI smell the blood of a petty little coward -- Set it off
Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other. -- Ellen J. Barrier
And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world -- Taylor Swift
Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor -- A.O. Storm
Born for the blue skies,We'll survive the rain.Born for the sunrise,We'll survive the pain. -- Switchfoot
I got rid of my car, and bought a garage band instead. Music gets better gas mileage. -- Jarod Kintz
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do. -- Keith Richards
It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other. -- Jason Medina
All bands eventually break up because of one or more of the four P's: power, property, prestiege, pussy. -- Dave Mustaine
Because the truth is, it isn't worth loving something if you aren't going to love it all the way. -- Goldy Moldavsky
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. -- Lysander Spooner
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day. -- Gwen Stefani
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. -- Scott Westerfeld
A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!' -- Angus Young
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. -- Bruce Springsteen
Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room -- John Green
A band should be more famous than an individual, because all else being equal, the band has more mothers and fathers to lend support. -- Jarod Kintz
I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so I will refrain. -- Julie Halpern
Be my secret. Be my joy. Be a miracle to me." From the song MIRACLE TO ME, from the album LIONS, by THE BLACK CROWES. -- The Black Crowes
It started out with a kissHow did it end up like this?It was only a kissRead more: The Killers - Mr. Brightside Lyrics | MetroLyrics -- The Killers
On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. -- Israelmore Ayivor
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy. -- Jennifer Garner
I know I love her, because when I see her my heart beats like a drum. If she played guitar and sang, we could start a band. -- Jarod Kintz
How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? -- Bert Murray
I'm not the one who's so far awayWhen I feel the snake bite enter my veins.Never did I wanna be here again,And I don't remember why I came. -- Sully Erna
I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. -- Bono
You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect. -- Ann Marie Frohoff
Steve Perry versus Arnel Pineda. At his confused expression, I explain, "The guy on YouTube who gained a following for covering Journey songs...then eventually became the new lead singer for the band? -- Christina Lauren
The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band. -- Ray Manzarek
Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her."You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend you over that table and break the club's no-penetration-in-the-lounge rule. -- Olivia Cunning
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience. -- Amy Lee
Those who serve and those who ruleLepers, kings and mindless foolsEmpire leaders, tyrant's toolsAll will fade with timeHail the cowards, brave at heartThe ugly and the beautifulThose who never felt their soulsAll live transient lives -- Kreator
I'm sick of all my judgesSo scared of what they'll findBut I know that I can make itAs long as somebody takes me home every now and thenRead more: The Killers - Sam's Town Lyrics | MetroLyrics -- The Killers
They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die. -- Trevor D. Richardson
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves. -- James Young
I abandoned my banned band, and as the lead singer, I felt like my throat was full of desert sand. That's to be expected after doing coke in the desert with BBMak.-Jarod Kintz and Crystal Woods -- Jarod Kintz
We've focused so long on ideals of freedom that it is this very belief that oppresses us.We all want to be free, yet we find ways to forfeit liberty to our own impulses, to our own consumption. -- As I Lay Dying
They Said the teenagers scared the living shit out of me, they could care less as long as someone will bleed, so darken your clothes or strike a violent pose maybe they'll leave you alon but not me -- My Chemical Romance
On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band room and just talking. -- John Green
That was the thing about playing with a band, Peter thought. There was always someone else to rescue you when it seemed certain you might fall behind. Only the solo acts left themselves open to those kinds of disasters. -- Jennifer E. Smith
I want to start a band called "Friday Have Been Cancelled" and then hold open auditions every Friday. The sign will read, "Auditions For Friday Have Been Cancelled." I sure hope nobody shows up because I certainly won't be there. -- Jarod Kintz
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart. -- Steven Van Zandt
I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then. -- Gerard Way
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully. -- Phil Anselmo
There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. -- Michael Hutchence
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. -- Quincy Jones
I won't forget when I couldn't go to bed with the lights offWhen I heard that voice call me in for the nightI remember when love was just a word and not a fightAll I had to worry about were broken bones and being left alone -- Real Friends
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace. -- Michio Kaku
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange. -- Megan Fox
We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do. -- Dave Blood
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. -- David Bowie
In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world. -- Caitlin Moran
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. -- Gerard Way
When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it. -- Thomas Gibson
The band geek has liquor? -- Jennifer Estep
I'm really a one-man band. -- Graham King
Badfinger were a great band -- Jane Wiedlin
Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't. -- Janina Gavankar
All musicians are potential band leaders. -- Thelonious Monk
Blackberry Smoke is my favorite band! -- Jamey Johnson

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