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JULIA BUSTARD As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l...
WAYNE KRAMER![]()
Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in ...
SCOTT WEILAND The Space targets a younger audience than some of the other venues in Springfield. We want to give u...
BECKY MAYER There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex m...
GARIK ISRAELIAN I couldn't be more excited about this. We worked for two years to have one of the Washington, D.C., ...
ED COLSON And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans....
JAMES YOUNG![]()
There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place,
DONALD MILLER![]()
Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.
DAVID JOHANSEN Unless they grow up and go to some cheesy club, there's no place for bands to play.
JACKIE CULLEN There are still big bands playing around the country, still ballrooms going in the Midwest and Calif...
BOB BLYER We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dor...
JAY MCSHANN Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of th...
TOMMY RAMONE![]()
A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.
ROBERT CRAY I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands....
JAMES MERCER![]()
I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands...
KATHLEEN HANNA A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.
AUDRINA PATRIDGE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year o...
TOM SCHOLZ I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
CAROLINE CORR I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.
KATHY VALENTINE We're finishing a really nice improvement to the stadium, an addition to the left field area. That g...
DONALD MOORE![]()
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
DAVID LEE ROTH Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've ...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA The energy from the kids is so immediate and so sincere. Play a song for them, and if they're into i...
LAURIE BERKNER We don't try to box ourselves in to one type of music. A lot is dictated by what the local bands are...
EDDIE CLARK![]()
For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones gett...
JACK WHITE Conventional bands with acoustic drums and guitar amps don't need much more than vocals in the floor...
CLIFF TUNE![]()
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY They've had trouble deciding on a name. But they're good. They play a lot of rock from the late '70s...
LONNIE SANDOVAL When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my ...
JUANES There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filte...
WIN BUTLER Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig openi...
CHARLES KELLEY Our fans are pretty loyal. In the beginning, we had to play a lot of shows to, like, one kid at a ti...
PATRICK STUMP![]()
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the ol...
COREY TAYLOR There's no separation between artist and audience member. You come to this festival and stand next t...
JEFFREY ALEXANDER It puts you in front of an industry crowd, meaning bands get more publicity and more attention. It's...
JASON KULBEL![]()
I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again....
LINDSEY STIRLING I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.
JONATHAN DAVIS Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play ...
BILLY WEST I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was ...
GEMMA ARTERTON That's the hard part. With the distance they did us a disadvantage. Here we are getting home (last n...
GENE DEFILIPPO I would love to see Regina Spektor, Bjork, and some really cool-sounding festival bands like 'Me...
MAREN MORRIS I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started...
DOUGLAS BOOTH We only have to win one more to get in the 1-2 game so we're still not looking too far ahead and we ...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX -...
VIC FUENTES Every game we play, we go looking for the win. We are looking for a balance and the more games we pl...
ISRAEL COLLAZO A lot of bands that end up getting, say, the major label deals ... there's already a good sense that...
BRENT GRULKE The internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder. I think the bands are probably in a ...
LAURENCE BELL We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
JERRY ONLY It's more about what was going on in town at that time, the places and the bands. Our band was in th...
JACK ROBERTS We never went out and played shows before we got signed because the music scene in Las Vegas is so b...
SPENCER SMITH We have a few people from the audience who will get up and sing while the bands are setting up.
KATIE MARKS It's insane. It's absolutely nuts. It's far too many bands it seems like. But it's not. We can do 1,...
BRENT GRULKE You can just get up there and play, and are accepted. It's exceptional. There is so much talent, and...
BOB BURGER It was interesting to see the different bands, fife and drum corps, and bagpipes. For a 16-block are...
MIKE SILK Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first ti...
BARBARA MIKULSKI All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get a...
BRANDON THOMAS When I was 15, 16 and joining this band when I was 18, I was just enthralled, and going to a basemen...
KEITH BUCKLEY![]()
I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio spe...
JASON NEWSTED Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot...
JOHN ALTENBURGH![]()
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Over the last few years, I have noticed there are definite cliques of hard rock and I think they're ...
TRACII GUNS At this point we are starting to play more as a team. We've been waiting for that. And our seniors a...
FRANK ROSSI![]()
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that ...
REGGIE WATTS We were just sitting around the house after the bands broke up, and we just called each other up and...
AARON TRICHE![]()
I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
MICK JAGGER Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Po...
BRET MICHAELS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for firs...
BARBARA MIKULSKI I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs...
RONNIE HAWKINS The talent search is a great way for independent singers and bands to expose their music and ministr...
MARK WEBER The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk a...
RANDY BACHMAN![]()
It's a family event, and it has attracted everyone from people with past military service to the you...
JOHN BREWER I think it's fantastic. I think the people should come out and check them out and it's a great oppor...
JACK BOWKUS I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was abou...
DAVE KEUNING![]()
I have a Californian girlfriend and she's into a lot of Californian bands so I listen to that.
DAMIEN HIRST We're designing for North America, but we have some strategic interest outside. If it's deployed int...
CHRIS WHITELEY![]()
But I've heard so many great bands from America over the years that I know there's an audience for s...
ALEX KAPRANOS They display their intolerance of racism with their white and black bands,
DAVID DAVIS There's a lot of play room here. A lot of places in New York, you walk in and you're already in the ...
BILL BRUSCA Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the fl...
PHIL ANSELMO![]()
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up t...
RICHIE SAMBORA![]()
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason ...
JACK ANTONOFF We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quali...
BILL DONABEDIAN![]()
Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in ...
KID ROCK We took the wall down because we wanted to make it so people can sit down at the lunch counter up fr...
CHRIS MALLAND Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
THOMAS BEECHAM![]()
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.
APRIL WINCHELL They're actually looking for me to play fullback for them. They said they don't have a lot of depth ...
JUSTIN MOORE I think I've kind of got the best position. I get all the benefits of being in one of the biggest ba...
GUY BERRYMAN I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties...
DEXTER HOLLAND The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the ...
WARREN HAYNES![]()
GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.
DAVID BOWIE We sell to the range of clients - to the family who are looking at one or two coins for their childr...
MARK SUTTON
ANDY BIERSACK I go to shows frequently. A lot of times, when bands play, they play in bars or places were alcohol ...
JULIA BUSTARD As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l...
WAYNE KRAMER
Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in ... SCOTT WEILAND The Space targets a younger audience than some of the other venues in Springfield. We want to give u...
BECKY MAYER There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex m...
GARIK ISRAELIAN I couldn't be more excited about this. We worked for two years to have one of the Washington, D.C., ...
ED COLSON And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans....
JAMES YOUNG
There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place, DONALD MILLER
Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands. DAVID JOHANSEN Unless they grow up and go to some cheesy club, there's no place for bands to play.
JACKIE CULLEN There are still big bands playing around the country, still ballrooms going in the Midwest and Calif...
BOB BLYER We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dor...
JAY MCSHANN Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of th...
TOMMY RAMONE
A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are. ROBERT CRAY I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands....
JAMES MERCER
I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands... KATHLEEN HANNA A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.
AUDRINA PATRIDGE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year o...
TOM SCHOLZ I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
CAROLINE CORR I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.
KATHY VALENTINE We're finishing a really nice improvement to the stadium, an addition to the left field area. That g...
DONALD MOORE
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. DAVID LEE ROTH Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've ...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA The energy from the kids is so immediate and so sincere. Play a song for them, and if they're into i...
LAURIE BERKNER We don't try to box ourselves in to one type of music. A lot is dictated by what the local bands are...
EDDIE CLARK
For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones gett... JACK WHITE Conventional bands with acoustic drums and guitar amps don't need much more than vocals in the floor...
CLIFF TUNE
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s... DAVID CASSIDY They've had trouble deciding on a name. But they're good. They play a lot of rock from the late '70s...
LONNIE SANDOVAL When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my ...
JUANES There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filte...
WIN BUTLER Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig openi...
CHARLES KELLEY Our fans are pretty loyal. In the beginning, we had to play a lot of shows to, like, one kid at a ti...
PATRICK STUMP
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the ol... COREY TAYLOR There's no separation between artist and audience member. You come to this festival and stand next t...
JEFFREY ALEXANDER It puts you in front of an industry crowd, meaning bands get more publicity and more attention. It's...
JASON KULBEL
I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again.... LINDSEY STIRLING I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.
JONATHAN DAVIS Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play ...
BILLY WEST I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was ...
GEMMA ARTERTON That's the hard part. With the distance they did us a disadvantage. Here we are getting home (last n...
GENE DEFILIPPO I would love to see Regina Spektor, Bjork, and some really cool-sounding festival bands like 'Me...
MAREN MORRIS I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started...
DOUGLAS BOOTH We only have to win one more to get in the 1-2 game so we're still not looking too far ahead and we ...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX -...
VIC FUENTES Every game we play, we go looking for the win. We are looking for a balance and the more games we pl...
ISRAEL COLLAZO A lot of bands that end up getting, say, the major label deals ... there's already a good sense that...
BRENT GRULKE The internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder. I think the bands are probably in a ...
LAURENCE BELL We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
JERRY ONLY It's more about what was going on in town at that time, the places and the bands. Our band was in th...
JACK ROBERTS We never went out and played shows before we got signed because the music scene in Las Vegas is so b...
SPENCER SMITH We have a few people from the audience who will get up and sing while the bands are setting up.
KATIE MARKS It's insane. It's absolutely nuts. It's far too many bands it seems like. But it's not. We can do 1,...
BRENT GRULKE You can just get up there and play, and are accepted. It's exceptional. There is so much talent, and...
BOB BURGER It was interesting to see the different bands, fife and drum corps, and bagpipes. For a 16-block are...
MIKE SILK Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first ti...
BARBARA MIKULSKI All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get a...
BRANDON THOMAS When I was 15, 16 and joining this band when I was 18, I was just enthralled, and going to a basemen...
KEITH BUCKLEY
I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio spe... JASON NEWSTED Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot...
JOHN ALTENBURGH
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Over the last few years, I have noticed there are definite cliques of hard rock and I think they're ...
TRACII GUNS At this point we are starting to play more as a team. We've been waiting for that. And our seniors a...
FRANK ROSSI
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that ... REGGIE WATTS We were just sitting around the house after the bands broke up, and we just called each other up and...
AARON TRICHE
I don't believe in having bands for solo records. MICK JAGGER Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Po...
BRET MICHAELS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for firs...
BARBARA MIKULSKI I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs...
RONNIE HAWKINS The talent search is a great way for independent singers and bands to expose their music and ministr...
MARK WEBER The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk a...
RANDY BACHMAN
It's a family event, and it has attracted everyone from people with past military service to the you... JOHN BREWER I think it's fantastic. I think the people should come out and check them out and it's a great oppor...
JACK BOWKUS I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was abou...
DAVE KEUNING
I have a Californian girlfriend and she's into a lot of Californian bands so I listen to that. DAMIEN HIRST We're designing for North America, but we have some strategic interest outside. If it's deployed int...
CHRIS WHITELEY
But I've heard so many great bands from America over the years that I know there's an audience for s... ALEX KAPRANOS They display their intolerance of racism with their white and black bands,
DAVID DAVIS There's a lot of play room here. A lot of places in New York, you walk in and you're already in the ...
BILL BRUSCA Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the fl...
PHIL ANSELMO
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up t... RICHIE SAMBORA
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason ...
JACK ANTONOFF We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quali...
BILL DONABEDIAN
Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in ... KID ROCK We took the wall down because we wanted to make it so people can sit down at the lunch counter up fr...
CHRIS MALLAND Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
THOMAS BEECHAM
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. SIR THOMAS BEECHAM I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.
APRIL WINCHELL They're actually looking for me to play fullback for them. They said they don't have a lot of depth ...
JUSTIN MOORE I think I've kind of got the best position. I get all the benefits of being in one of the biggest ba...
GUY BERRYMAN I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties...
DEXTER HOLLAND The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the ...
WARREN HAYNES
GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other. DAVID BOWIE We sell to the range of clients - to the family who are looking at one or two coins for their childr...
MARK SUTTON
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong. 
When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things. 
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. 
Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just ... 
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content wi... 
Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of... 
I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword. 
At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ... 
I read; I travel; I become 
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your se... 
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the ... 
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. 
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars. 
An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ... 
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about 
I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica... 
I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what i... 