These band quotes will inspire you. Band, something that confines or constricts while allowing a degree of movement or a flat, thin strip or loop of material put around something, typically to hold it together or to decorate it.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging band quotes, band sayings, and band proverbs.
Best Band Quotes
- “We’re not a political band. We don’t want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.” ~ Billie Joe Armstrong
- “I mean, I’m in a band, we’re reasonably successful, I’ve got a very nice suit – I’m not even a bad person- so why can’t I get a shag?” ~ Colin Greenwood
- “Rock is about finding who you are. You don’t necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.” ~ Gene Simmons , Rock band quotes
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“We’re not arrogant, we just believe we’re the best band in the world.” ~ Noel Gallagher
- “Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.” ~ Elton John
- “That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It’s who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.” ~ Brad Paisley
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“I had gone full-on folkie; I’d had it with bands.” ~ Dan Fogelberg
- “Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.” ~ Brad Paisley
- “Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.” ~ Nile Rodgers
- “When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.” ~ Mike Shinoda
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“I’m in a weird band. We’ve done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.” ~ Gene Simmons
- “Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn’t want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.” ~ Paul Simon
- “One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.” ~ Layne Staley
- “If I wasn’t bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.” ~ Peter Steele
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“Being in a band you can wear whatever you want – it’s like an excuse for Halloween every day.” ~ Gwen Stefani
- “Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.” ~ Gerard Way , Music band quotes
- “Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.” ~ Wim Wenders
- “I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.” ~ Lucinda Williams
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“My school colors were clear. We used to say, ‘I’m not naked, I’m in the band.” ~ Steven Wright
- “It is not a band. It is an idea.” ~ Gerard Way
- “I haven’t a great Jazz band and I don’t want one.” ~ Glenn Miller
- “If your album sells, that’s cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we’re really about-which is a live rock and roll band.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.” ~ David Lee Roth
- “Hi, I’m Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don’t drink and drive. I don’t… you’re blind!” ~ Jeff Healey
- “From the beginning of Queen, there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band” ~ Brian May
- “We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.” ~ Billie Joe Armstrong
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“Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.” ~ Graham Nash
- “When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges, and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favorite bands. I never get sick of ’em.” ~ Evan Dando
- “Almost every band has somebody who’s the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.” ~ Stephen Malkmus
- “But, then again, I wouldn’t call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.” ~ Stephen Malkmus
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“The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.” ~ Gregg Allman
- “Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.” ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
- “With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.” ~ Louis Jordan
- “One of the things I’ve always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it – like, not to change.” ~ Peter Steele
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“When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant” ~ Geezer Butler
- “What I’ve always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.” ~ Mick Taylor
- “A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.” ~ Glenn Tipton
- “Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.” ~ Caroline Corr
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“For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.” ~ Ed O’Brien
- “I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!” ~ Caroline Corr
- “I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.” ~ Neal Schon
- “I was in one bar band from 1965 to ’69, then I was in another one from 1970 to ’79 – a 9-year bar band!” ~ Eric Carr
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“Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.” ~ Trevor Dunn
- “I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all.” ~ Billy Bragg
- “I’m like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and breakthrough, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.” ~ John Fogerty
- “We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.” ~ Roy Wood
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“Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.” ~ Kathy Valentine
- “Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.” ~ Kathy Valentine
- “I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.” ~ Jerry Harrison
- “Normally when I work with bands I’m trying to refine and improve what’s already there.” ~ Jerry Harrison
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“Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.” ~ Trevor Dunn
- “Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we’re a heavy rock band. We’re definitely not a metal band, but we’re a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.” ~ Adam Rich
- “In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.” ~ Andy Gibb
- “I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what’s going on with Greenpeace, interesting political things, I have artists, musicians, and bands.” ~ Nina Hagen
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“Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.” ~ Tony Visconti
- “Being a new band, I just can’t think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.” ~ Adam Rich
- “Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like “”Brothers in Arms”” and immediately you know they’re a stupid annoying git.” ~ Alexei Sayle
- “To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.” ~ Bobby Vinton
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“It’s the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.” ~ Graham Coxon
- “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
- “I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren’t dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over before we know what was going on.” ~ T Bone Burnett
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“The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs – I really wanted to make a record like that.” ~ Sheryl Crow
- “Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.” ~ Levon Helm
- “And for REO – they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.” ~ James Young
