Best Bands Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.”

“There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.”

“My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.”

“I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.”

“When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.”

“I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.”

“I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.”

“Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.”

“There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.”

“Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.”

“I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.”

“In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.”

“I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.”

“I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister.”

“I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.”

“I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.”

“Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.”

“High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.”

“When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.”

“My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.”

“When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season.”

“I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.”

“When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.”

“If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.”

“I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.”

“When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?”

“I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.”

“Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.”

“Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.”

“People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.”

“Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.”

“I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.”

“I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.”

“Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.”

“So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!”

“Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.”

“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.”

“It's not very often that I like new bands.”

“I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.”

“I've sung background for a couple of bands.”

“Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.”

“I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.”

“I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.”

“I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.”

“The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.”

“We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!”

“Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.”

“By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.”

“I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.”

“I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.”

“Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.”

“We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.”

“Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.”

“Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.”

“Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.”

“I love British bands.”

“I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.”

“I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.”

“Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.”

“I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.”

“All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.”

“Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.”

“Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.”

“I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.”

“There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.”

“I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.”

“The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.”

“Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.”

“When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.”

“If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.”

“I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.”

“The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.”

“You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.”

“One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.”

“No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.”

“That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.”

“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.”

“I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy - they all have influences from both.”

“It's such an interesting experience seeing how different people react to music and the generosity of some and the craziness of others - people who go see bands in different countries, know all the words to the songs, and get tattoos. It's so unexpected.”

“There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.”

“I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.”

“All kinds of things have gone into my shows - cajun and rock bands, Bollywood, Kraftwerk tributes, effects and so on. As long as it services the comedy, everything is up for grabs.”

“I've been in many bands and every time I try to be a character that's not me it has failed miserably.”

“I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.”

“It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.”

“Your favourite songs by your favourite bands are never the singles. It's when they've done exactly what they wanted without any compromise and not worried about the reaction.”

“It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.”

“I don't know any American rock bands.”

“I don't know if it was a single-blade or one of those straight-edge razors, but I used to play in bands that were, like, show bands and would play different clubs, and, in those days, I would go to the barber twice a week.”

“My tastes are pretty varied. For instance, I love Wilco. But it's considered dad rock. It's one of my favorite bands, and yet I find it impossible not to think of myself as a dad-in-training when I listen to it.”

“I had a lot of Bengali friends in Delhi. The bands there had Bengali musicians: for example, Indian Ocean. We use to have a good amount of adda and sing songs through the night.”

“With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.”

“My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad was, like, one of them old musicians, and he played in, like, loads of different bands in the '70s and '80s. Him and my brother were kind of like my main inspirations.”

“I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.”

“This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.”

“I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.”

“For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.”

“I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.”

“I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.”

“Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.”