Angus Young
Musician
"The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles."
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Amy Lee
Musician
"I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be."
Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band."
Bruce Dickinson
Musician, Author, Pilot
"If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off."
Chad Smith
Musician
"I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school."
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"The Meatbats are a throwback band."
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"I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school."
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"REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band."
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"Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians."
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"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds."
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"Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships."
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"I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking."
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"I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though."
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"To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier."
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"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
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"Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together."
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"Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist."
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"I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands."
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"I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony."
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"I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know."
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"I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens."
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"I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play."
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"Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average."
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"True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans."
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"It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible."
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