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I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.
Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.
I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.
I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.
That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.
So, I play in a band. It's a really underground band. Super underground. Very underground. Like, we don't even actually play.
I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.
When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.
There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.
Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks
Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.
I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.
I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy.
The one thing the Allman Brothers Band does not do is phone it in. They bring it every night and that's something I draw from.
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.
The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.
I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and productions.
A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.
I like bands for a long time, even when they're not trendy anymore. I still like Arcade Fire. I've always liked Stevie Wonder.
A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.