Band Performances Quotes

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

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.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.

I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.

The best live shows I've ever been to were Green on Red live shows. Amazing live band.

The most amazing live shows that I've ever seen were Rain Parade shows.

We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.

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.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

I grew up in Iowa, so we had Cheap Trick come through a lot, but some of the other acts were a little harder to find.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.