Quotes of: Big-band Keyword

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

Bret Michaels

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Daryl Hall

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

Andrew Bird

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

Adam Jones

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

Chris Cornell

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

Gene Simmons

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

Jimmy Chamberlin

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

Laurent Brancowitz

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Ruben Blades

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

Wynton Marsalis

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

Grace Slick

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Chrissie Hynde

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Janis Ian

Estrella Starr: [about Penny Lane] She used to run a school for Band-Aids.

Almost Famous

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

Adrian Belew

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Agnetha Faltskog

I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

Ashton Irwin

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

Adam Jones

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

Adam Jones

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

Adam Jones

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

Anthony Kiedis