The Offspring Band Quotes

The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10. ~ Larry MacPhail

Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow. ~ The Offspring

The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation while being open to other forms. When the parent imposes an arbitrary system of reinforcement (punishment and reward) in order to manipulate the offspring to act against its own best interests, selection will favor offspring that resist such schedules of reinforcement. ~ Robert Trivers

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

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions. ~ Mark Twain

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

Peace the offspring is of Power. ~ Bayard Taylor

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. ~ Michael Holroyd

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

To be successful as a living thing, you have to have offspring, who have offspring, who have offspring. Rest assured, your family did, or you wouldn't be here. As troubling as it may seem, your parents had sex - at least once. If you have brothers and sisters, more than once ... One shudders to think of it. ~ Bill Nye

We are offspring of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. ~ John Milton

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

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. ~ James Madison

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? ~ Philip Sidney

Slavery is the offspring of darkness. ~ Simon Bolivar

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

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before. ~ Millard Fillmore

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

Yet, as I will make clear, any Pleistocene woman who relied on looks alone to pull offspring through was not likely to be a mother very long or leave descendants. ~ Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am. ~ John Lydon

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

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours. ~ Alexander Grothendieck

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. ~ Anonymous

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

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms. ~ Chris Hardwick

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

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. ~ Charles Macklin

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

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. ~ Bill Moyers

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. ~ Jean-Henri Fabre

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

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. ~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance. ~ Chris Heimerdinger

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring. ~ T.F. Hodge

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

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

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

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

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense. ~ Henry Fuseli

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

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine. ~ John Muir

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

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things. ~ Johannes Kepler

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

It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good, ordinary, forward causation). ~ Steven Pinker

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

Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission. ~ Robin Sharma

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

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

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

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

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

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

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ~ Mark Twain

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring. ~ Frans De Waal

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds. ~ John Armstrong

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. ~ Sophie Swetchine

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