Bands Quotes

“I wasn't aware that was how I felt, either, until it was out. And now that I've said it like that, I'm not exactly sure it is how I feel. But this isn't a piece of paper I can crumple up and throw away. they aren't words I can cross out to start over. Now they're out, and I know they'll hang here, between us, maybe forever.”
― Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys

“Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world”
― Ed Sheeran

“Being a male fan of obscure old bands is, for some reason, more acceptable than being a female fan of a twenty-first-century boy band.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the ‘mature’ thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.”
― Mark Rice, Metallic Dreams

“Real bands save fans, real fans save bands.”
― Michael Clifford

“Maybe the reason that things band members have said have given me more confidence than stuff my mom has said is because my mom says “I love you just the way you are” whereas the band members are just like “be who you want to be it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks and it doesn’t matter if you change, just do what makes you happy”
So you see
I don’t like me the way I am so my mom’s thing is not helpful”
― The Porg

“Funny, cute and kissable
I've found a girl that makes me lose control
Every night's like the first night
Never gettin' old”
― The Summer Set

“Then one day in school, I turned round to the others and said, 'Dude, what if we started a band like All Time Low?”
― 5 Seconds of Summer, Hey, Let's Make a Band!: The Official 5SOS Book

“We put the fun in dysfunctional.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“In the wake of my broken dreams
In the dirt and the dust and the days that felt like weeks.
I found the person that I’m meant to be
‘Cause when I felt like giving up
When death was closing in
I shut my eyes
And black out the darkness with light from inside
I’ve given more
Than what I’ve got
I’ve given all
Of what I’m not
I’ve watched this war consume all that we could become
Facing my fears in the dark
But if I die
Before it’s done
Please take these words
My final thoughts
The only way to shine your light is in the dark.
Never let life kill your spark
This is the fallout
Yeah it’s the end of the world
We’ll spread the noise to everyone and let them all know you heard
A system meltdown
It’s time we expose
The 'cause of chaos is our own
I’ve given more
Than what I’ve got
I’ve given all
Of what I’m not
I’ve watched this war consume all that we could become
Facing my fears in the dark
But if I die
Before it’s done
Please take these words
My final thoughts
The only way to shine your light is in the dark.
Never let life kill your spark
Never let life kill your spark
Never let life kill your spark
Facing my fears in the dark
I’ve given more
Than what I’ve got
I’ve given all
Of what I’m not
I’ve watched this war consume all that we could become
If I die
Before it’s done
Please take these words
My final thoughts
The only way to shine your light is in the dark.
Never let life kill your spark..”
― Crown The Empire

“There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and their music changed. Some bands now go seven years without hardly bothering to do anything.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.”
― Noel Gallagher

“So this book is like a thank you. We want everyone to know the story of how four Western Sydney teenagers picked up their instruments and dreamt of being one of the biggest bands in the world.”
― 5 Seconds of Summer, Hey, Let's Make a Band!: The Official 5SOS Book

“All the blackpink places have got pictures of their goddesses and here I have the gods themselves.”
― The Porg

“Keith Richards on change—"It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“The first song Ben taught me was Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water', when i was 10, and I would play it on the top string with one finger. I did it so much that there was a massive crease in the skin and i think I must have driven everyone crazy, playing that same song all the time,”
― 5 Seconds of Summer, Hey, Let's Make a Band!: The Official 5SOS Book

“I needed space from Renn’s snoring. Last couple of nights the idea of smothering him with a pillow has grown real tempting,” Jett said as they ambled along the sidewalk.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Captivating Melody

“When I put together my early bands, usually some other singer who was short of one would take it away. It seemed like this happened every time one of my bands was fully formed. I couldn’t understand how this was possible seeing that these guys weren’t any better at singing or playing than I was. What they did have was an open door to gigs where there was real money. Anybody who had a band could play at park pavilions, talent shows, county fairgrounds, auctions and store openings, but those gigs didn’t pay except maybe for expenses and sometimes not even for that. These other crooners could perform at small conventions, private wedding parties, golden anniversaries in hotel ballrooms, things like that — and there was cash involved. It was always the promise of money that lured my band away. Truth was, that the guys who took my bands away had connections to someone up the ladder.
It went to the very root of things, gave unfair advantage to some and left others squeezed out. How could somebody ever reach the world this way? It seemed like it was the law of life. It got so that I almost always expected to lose my band and it didn’t even shock me anymore if it happened. It was beginning to dawn on me that I would have to learn how to play and sing by myself and not depend on a band until the time I could afford to pay and keep one.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

“One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.”
― Jessica Pallington West

“Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.”
― Keith Richards

“Even then, I could still appreciate the moment of simply making sounds with a group of people. There is another place you go to in those instances, and it feels vast, refreshing, like you're creating your own air to breathe. And even though it's never going to happen again and there's a palpable sense of mediocrity, there's still a connection that you wouldn't have otherwise, to the sound, to the people.”
― Carrie Brownstein

“The patches are the stories. Hold onto that. And the muddy zigzag of ducktape against the cracked doorglass. There's four kids who sleep here, a nuff for the fingers on each otherses hands. There's room in each of them for one important thing. They're a band. It's not they're in a band. They're a band. Four spikes of ducktape, up and down, like mountain peaks or a sawblade. Every band's got a sign, something to sew on your jacket, gouge on the wall at a show. Four spikes up and down say MEATHEADS, and you picked a fucked window to knock at, tourist. They're the best band in the world.”
― Noah Wareness

“Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.”
― Switchfoot, Switchfoot: Nothing Is Sound

“I will wear my own band’s merch because I am a fan of the American rock band The Blink One Eighty Twos.”
― Mark Hoppus

“Bands perform songs. DJs perform records.”
― Jace Clayton, Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture

“I think there's a lot more freedom in doing the solo thing. It's almost like switching bands every time I do an album. Once this fourth one is out, I think it's going to be apparent that every record is not going to be the same.”
― Jay Reatard

“At the end of the song, the last chord I play sends the synth flying. It sails through the air and explodes when it lands, people dodging the synth-shrapnel left and right. You can tell it's the greatest thing that ever happened to them, this synth-bomb. The crowd goes wild.”
― Hilary T. Smith, Wild Awake

“After listening to their spiel, I'd point out that 311's first album sounds pretty much like their second album, which sounds pretty much like their third album. The band wasn't selling out. The rest of the world was just catching up.”
― Alan Goldsher, Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read

“Music lets my fingers talk with a voice of their very own.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You know, Aerosmith will be the thing that kills off your music. Not them directly, mind you. What they represent. Bands are going to sell out. Whatever you think is rebellious now will be used to sell you laxatives in a decade. You'll all get old and conservative. Your Saint Cobain put it well: 'Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old.' It's all about money. You'll get that. You think you are edgy now, but I've seen people like you start to lose their hair and then lose their minds.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven