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Big Band Quotes & Sayings

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It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show. — Phil Elvrum

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81. — John Lurie

I actually don't care about his movies that much. I just want to twang that thong like a big elastic band. — Valerie Bertinelli

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. — Tom Verlaine

BIGBANG is the band that i myself am a big fan of — G-Dragon

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them — Dave Grohl

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band. — Billy Corgan

I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync. — Alex Scally

Forgiveness is a big deal to Jesus, and like that guy in high school with a garage band, he talks about it, like, all the time. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting. — Chris Martin

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music. — George Strait

I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band." — Gary Jarman

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. — John Lescroart

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump. — Louis Jordan

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo. — Hoagy Carmichael

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band. — Nick Jonas

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. — Moira Kelly

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big — Charles Garfield

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. — Kathy Valentine

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy. — Billy Sherwood

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. — Alan Greenspan

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. — Billy Sherwood

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good. — Adam Brody

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar. — Tessanne Chin

I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements. — Scott Bakula

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius. — Jamie Lawson

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. — Paul Stanley

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck. — Kellin Quinn

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band. — Robert Plant

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines. — Mat McNerney

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music. — Glenn Frey

How does a band like System of a Down get big? — Daron Malakian

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. — Andy Summers

If bullshit were music, you'd be a big brass band, — A Meredith Walters

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense. — Brian Setzer

We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot. — Noel Redding

Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said. — James Kaplan

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band. — Alex Kapranos

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it. — Phil Collins

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about. — Steve Brown

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it. — Chuck Berry

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band. — Alison Krauss

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken. — Giles Duley

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all. — John Lennon

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time. — Suzy Bogguss

I still miss music and singing. One day, I'm going to sing with a big band. — Paul Eenhoorn

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums. — Levon Helm