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Bands are like people. They're born and then they die. -- Mary Timony
Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that. -- Ted Leo
Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars. -- Brandon Flowers
Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do. -- Jerry Cantrell
Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously. -- Dan Auerbach
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them. -- Karen O
Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril. -- Janet Morris
Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life. -- Janet Morris
Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. -- Dr. Seuss
Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs. -- Henry Rollins
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships. -- Jonathan Cain
Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. -- Elton John
The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise. -- Patrick Stump
Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top. -- Nile Rodgers
It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. -- Chuck Klosterman
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. -- Wynton Marsalis
Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio. -- John Vanderslice
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. -- Brian Bell
Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines. -- Mat McNerney
We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands. -- Jay McShann
Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands come out like that. I think it is great. -- Michael Sweet
I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands. -- Stan Getz
If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off. -- Bruce Dickinson
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge. -- Adam Jones
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. -- Adam Jones
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll. -- Dave Grohl
The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands. -- Sabrina Carpenter
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
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer. -- Shannon Hoon
Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock. -- Dave Grohl
A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing. -- Kellin Quinn
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. -- Richard Branson
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view. -- Steve Albini
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. -- Arlo Guthrie
A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like. -- Angus Young
James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub. -- Billy Corgan
I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads! -- Bruno Mars
KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else. -- Paul Stanley
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister. -- Georgia May Jagger
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things. -- Dexter Holland
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section. -- Jonny Greenwood
I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again. -- Jane Wiedlin
When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15. -- Juanes
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. -- Moby
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage. -- Henry Rollins
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound. -- Kendrick Lamar
Perception is made up of bands. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. -- Gene Ween
I was in two very horrible bands. -- Colin Hanks
Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do. -- Ricky Gervais
I've played drums in bands since I was 16. -- Miles Teller
Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands. -- Billy Corgan
I've sung background for a couple of bands. -- Randy Jackson
Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely. -- Steven Tyler
He's a million rubber bands in his resilience. -- Alan K. Simpson
Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast. -- Alex Scally
I don't like English bands. They're too structured. -- Tommy Bolin
I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day. -- Henry Rollins
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals. -- Jenny Frost
We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands. -- Kip Winger
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce. -- Alex Kapranos
It's not very often that I like new bands. -- Natalie Imbruglia
I don't believe in having bands for solo records. -- Mick Jagger
The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous. -- Fred Schneider
I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days. -- Rick Astley
I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies. -- Michael Azerrad
Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands. -- Chris Hardwick
Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. -- Henry Rollins
Id been bumming around in bands since my school days. -- Rick Astley
Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on. -- Trevor Dunn
All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly. -- Alex Scally
There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever. -- Santiago Durango
I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews. -- Win Butler
I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover. -- Fred Durst
I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands. -- Dan Fogelberg
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline. -- Lew Wallace
At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience. -- Demetri Martin
When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best. -- Agnes Obel
I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories. -- Art Alexakis
I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage. -- Angus Young
Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky. -- Diplo
Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands. -- Rashida Jones
All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men. -- James Iha
Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years. -- Peter Steele
I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands. -- Kesha
You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands. -- Joan Jett
My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it -- Jimi Goodwin
I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe. -- Deborah Sampson
Bribes and boy bands. That's all you need to be a babysitter. -- Mindy Kaling
There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick. -- Bruce Dickinson
I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it. -- Carlos Pena, Jr.
I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands. -- Mick Barr
Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world! -- Steven Van Zandt
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country. -- Lee Konitz
One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart. -- Layne Staley
I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back. -- Carlos Pena, Jr.
I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me! -- Ronnie Wood
There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think. -- Doug Martsch
I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance. -- Jamie Bell
I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands. -- Steve Brown
Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman. -- Scott Lynch
I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night. -- Grant-Lee Phillips
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. -- Evan Dando
All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually. -- Rob Zombie
It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings. -- Neil Young
Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them. -- Bryan Ferry
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. -- David Byrne
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. -- Bruce Springsteen
It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers. -- Dave Navarro
Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands. -- David Johansen
A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off. -- Adam Rich
A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is. -- Dimebag Darrell
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. -- David Lee Roth
It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due. -- Clea Duvall
I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though. -- DJ Khaled
I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage. -- Andy Summers
I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music. -- Alex Scally
I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials. -- Robby Krieger

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