Quotes of: Pop-band Keyword

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

Wynton Marsalis

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Yann Tiersen

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Billy Sherwood

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

Will Carleton

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

Hanna Rosin

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

Steve Coogan

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

Zayn Malik

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Jake: We're putting the band back together. Mr. Fabulous: Forget it. No way. Elwood: We're on a mission from God.

The Blues Brothers

Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.

The Blues Brothers

Jake: Take $1400 and give it to Ray's Music Exchange in Calumet City. Give the rest to the band.

The Blues Brothers

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

Andrew Bird

I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

Anton Corbijn

The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

Annie Dillard

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

Adam Jones

I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.

Al Jourgensen

I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.

Ashton Kutcher

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.

Alex Lifeson

As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

Alan Price

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

Adrian Smith

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.

Andrew Wyatt