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I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.
Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
On Friendster, if you were a band and you made a profile, they would delete it. They didn't want bands on their site.
This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.
You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.
I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.
I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.
My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.
Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally.
Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
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.
When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.
Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.
I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing.
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.
Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.
Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that's a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a rock band.
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quietly than other bands.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
If youd asked me after Band of Brothers what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined Southland.
Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.
When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.
I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.
That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.
I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.
I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.
I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.
The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."
There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.
I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.
I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.