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The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case. -- Paul Banks
One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself. -- Neil Strauss
I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher. -- Darren Robinson
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. -- David Byrne
I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians. -- Diplo
Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band. -- Joel Madden
We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing. -- Jesse L. Martin
I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band. -- Stark Sands
I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. -- Matt Cameron
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense. -- Brian Setzer
I think me and Kristen Bell are going to start a band. It's called Kung-Fu Professor. -- Clark Duke
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. -- Michael Stipe
I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums. -- Paulina Rubio
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band. -- Chris Daughtry
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured. -- John Hawkes
I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates. -- Daisy Berkowitz
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. -- Oscar Isaac
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. -- Greg Ginn
The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot. -- James Iha
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records. -- David Johansen
When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV. -- Jason Mraz
Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference. -- Robbie Robertson
We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well. -- A. J. McLean
When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band. -- Phil Ehart
I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band. -- Dave Keuning
We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting. -- Billy Corgan
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band. -- William Mapother

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