Quotes of: Boy-bands Keyword

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

Eddie Van Halen

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

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

John Grogan

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

Eberhard Weber

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

Pink

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

Jonny Greenwood

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

James Mercer

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

Alex Kapranos

Boys will be boys. Well, some boys will be girls.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Boys are idiots. Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot. A girl, for instance, will vote for a boy in an election, or go to a movie that's about a boy, or buy a book that features a boy hero (or villain). Boys are much...

I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

A Boy Named Harry: The Childhood of Lee Kuan Yew

Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

Marie Lu

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.

Buzz Osborne

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Corey Taylor

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

Chuck Berry

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

I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

Nikki Sixx

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Ritchie Blackmore

If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

Steve Turner

People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'

Robbie Robertson