Band Repertoire Quotes

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

Since high school, I was in this band. And you know, it's one thing when you're in a band in high school, but then to have it last for so long - that's who I am and what I did forever.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

The only criterion we used in doing cover material was we wanted to do songs that we wished bands would play when we went out. We were doing Yardbirds and Rolling Stones cover songs-which is not any big deal, but where we were from, all we were getting were Top 40 bands.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

We have to play 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Bad Medicine.' We have to play them, and we want to play them, and that's what we're supposed to do. It's like going to see The Beatles and them not playing your favorite song. It's not the right thing to do.

Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we'd go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn't need to cover other people's songs anymore.

The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

I wouldn't do go to another band.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

I want to entertain my audience. I know when then come and see me play, if I don't do 'Swing Town,' 'Jet Airliner,' 'Take the Money and Run,' 'True Fine Love,' 'Fly Like an Eagle,' 'The Joker,' blah blah blah - if I don't do all those songs, they'll be extremely disappointed. I love to do them.

I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.

It's awesome to play 1 1/2 -hour shows because it's so much fun, and we enjoy every single minute of it.

I don't think we've ever been in an interview where someone hasn't asked, 'How did you guys get together?'

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.

When I was in Baltimore, I played in several different bands, doing four sets a night, two sets of originals, two sets of covers, that kind of thing.

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.