Asbak Band Quotes

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys. ~ James Hetfield

I fall so hard inside the idea of you ~ Dave Matthews Band

There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band. ~ Peter Hammill

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.' ~ Dimebag Darrell

Being in a band is about making the band the priority. ~ Adam Duritz

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different ... different personalities and musical tastes. ~ Buddy Rich

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band. ~ Demetri Martin

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

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in. ~ James Young

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had. ~ Ace Frehley

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds. ~ Adam Baldwin

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. ~ Kurt Cobain

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band. ~ Warren DeMartini

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. ~ Gerry Mulligan

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last. ~ Jack Nicklaus

What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here. ~ Bill Vaughan

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck. ~ Craig Ferguson

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band. ~ Patti LuPone

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members. ~ Greg Lake

My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship ... ~ Rob Schwimmer

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd. ~ Eddie Trunk

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band. ~ Sam Endicott

So, I play in a band. It's a really underground band. Super underground. Very underground. Like, we don't even actually play. ~ Greg Behrendt

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band. ~ Fernanda Takai

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays. ~ Sebastian Bach

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions. ~ Courtney Love

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin. ~ Jeff Ament

When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands. ~ Mario Batali

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

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band. ~ Billy Corgan

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band. ~ Alice Cooper

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family. ~ Bruno Mars

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band. ~ Eric Clapton

One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band. ~ Robbie Robertson

The sexiest thing in the world is to be totally naked with your wedding band on. ~ Debra Winger

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome. ~ Les Claypool

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. ~ Michael Connelly

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke. ~ B.B. King

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band. ~ Shannon Hoon

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield ... ~ Don McLean

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band. ~ Robert Plant

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. ~ Geezer Butler

I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't. ~ Art Alexakis

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band. ~ Alex Van Halen

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches. ~ Eric Jerome Dickey

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness. ~ Andrew Bird

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band. ~ Vinnie Vincent

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago. ~ Jenny Lewis

You can see it in people's faces, when they're into a metal band. It's cool to see that being passed on. ~ Chris Reifert

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

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star. ~ Chris Lowe

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to. ~ Beth Ditto

I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set! ~ Fran Drescher

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners. ~ Christopher Lee

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band. ~ Tommy Bolin

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade. ~ Beth Ditto

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with. ~ Dexter Holland

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. ~ Gerry Mulligan

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

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band. ~ Sharon Jones

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass. ~ Scotty Moore

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time. ~ Jimmy Page

Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for certain ~ Dave Matthews Band

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters. ~ Dave Matthews Band

The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band. ~ Ian McLagan

Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up. ~ Mitch Albom

There are evil people, but they still came weeping from someone's vagina. ~ Dave Matthews Band

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music. ~ Matt Tong

We're just some little metal band. ~ Mitch Lucker

i was ment to be by your side and i have waited here along time for you to turn around and notice me
but now your here holding hands with me ~ The Band Perrry

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. ~ Dylan Moran

It's funny how your dead when people start listening. ~ The Band Perry

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me. ~ Ryan Hemsworth

I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy. ~ Pharoah Sanders

I think it's always good for a band to try and grow. ~ Matt Squire

I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me ~ Dave Matthews Band

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band. ~ Malin Akerman

I wouldn't do go to another band. ~ John Deacon

The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band. ~ Christian McBride

I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident. ~ Ian Astbury

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school. ~ Colin Mochrie

Would you walk to the edge of the ocean
Just to fill my jar with sand
Just in case I get the notion
To let it run through my hand ~ The Band Perrry

I ain't askin' nobody for nothin'....so just leave this long haired country boy alone. ~ Charlie Daniels Band

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected. ~ Nikki Sixx

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band. ~ Flea

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together. ~ Joan Armatrading

Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse. ~ Thom Yorke

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos. ~ Wayne Kramer

We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot. ~ Bent Saether

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

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band. ~ Dave Grohl

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band. ~ Tommy Lee

Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable! ~ Michael Brecker

A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems. ~ John L. Casti

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band. ~ Jimmy Chamberlin

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band. ~ Sarah McLachlan

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band. ~ Chester Bennington

What happens in the band room stays in the band room. ~ John Green

I opted out of the band. ~ Lou Gramm

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways. ~ Boy George