Band Comparison Quotes

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

I think my fans are much more open-minded than some other bands' fan bases are.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

When we started, our style of music wasn't on MTV. It wasn't cool, and it wasn't popular. The only bands who were even kind of similar were Blink-182 and Green Day. But we don't sound like those bands, even if people throw us in that category now.

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses.

There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.

I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it?

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

The Backstreet Boys are easy; they're cream. And then here we are, this nine-piece metal militia.

Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

I don't want to compare SuperM to any of the other groups.

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect."

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.