Good Bands Quotes:

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: One Day, Band, Good Bands

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

- Anton Newcombe

topic: Gun, People, Rose, Good Bands, Guns N Roses

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

- Arthur Godfrey

topic: Writing, Who I Am, Years, Good Bands, Four Years

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

- Alice Cooper

source: "Johnny Depp's Rock Supergroup: Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on Hollywood Vampires". Interview with Jeff Slate, www.thedailybeast.com. September 13, 2015.

topic: Band, World, Stones, Good Bands

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

- Bob Dylan

source: "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

topic: Thinking, People, Giving, False Sense Of Security, Good Bands

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Play, Band, Stuff, Good Bands

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

- Sharon Jones

topic: Stuff, Jam, Band, Phish, Good Bands

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

- Black Francis

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Strong, Filters, Band, Good Bands

The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.

- James Iha

source: "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

topic: Writing, Rocks, Band, Good Bands

If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

- Van Morrison

source: Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

topic: School, Different, Band, Good Bands

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

- Marisha Pessl

topic: Band, Kind, Realizing, Good Bands

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

- Jon Lord

topic: Rocks, Purple, Band, Deep Purple, Damn Good

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

- David Cross

topic: People, Giving, Band, Funny People, Good Bands

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

- Jon Fishman

topic: Thinking, Band, Want, Good Sense, Good Bands

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

topic: Growing Up, Couple, Hero, Good Bands

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

- Ronnie Hawkins

topic: Jobs, Team, People, Good Bands

The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.

- Paul Weller

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Style, Jam, Good Bands, Misinterpreted

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

- Robert Wyatt

topic: Important, Roger, Band, Good Bands

I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

- Bix Beiderbecke

topic: Band, Hell, Good Bands

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

- Woody Herman

topic: Thinking, Today, Band, Fodder, Good Bands

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

topic: Real, Rocks, Band, Good Bands, Indie Rock

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

- Nuno Bettencourt

topic: Oasis, Band, Stones, Radiohead, Good Bands

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

- Ace Frehley

topic: Wife, Trying, Band, Good Wife, Good Bands

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

- Greg Ginn

topic: Fashion, Sex, Media, Sex Pistols, Good Bands

Duane Allman was bursting with energy ... he was a force to be reckoned with. His drive and focus, as well as his intense belief in himself and our band, was incredible. He knew we were going to make it. We all knew we were a good band, but no one had that supreme confidence like he did, and it was a great thing, because his confidence and enthusiam were infectious... it says a lot that his hero was Muhammad Ali. That kind of supreme confidence that Ali had - that's where Duane was coming from

- Richard Betts

topic: Music, Hero, Focus, Supreme Confidence, Good Bands

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Country, Running, Fun, Tall, Good Bands

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Texas, Musician, Band, Good Bands

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc...and that really sucks.

- John Gallagher, Jr.

topic: Ideas, Band, Followers, Wannabes, Good Bands

I think there are plenty of good bands out there, but the great bands aren't affected by what's going on around them, trends and all that and competing with other bands and wanting to be the biggest, we find that happens a lot. Bands look at other bands and think: that's what I want, you know? I think that remaining.

- Ryan Jarman

topic: Thinking, Looks, Band, Good Bands

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

- Joan Jett

topic: Rocks, Missing, Doe, Good Bands

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

- Waylon Jennings

topic: Song, Band, Problem, Good Bands

Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.

- Ben Gibbard

topic: Thinking, Mtv, Play, Good Bands