Band Fame Quotes

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

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

Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

How does a band like System of a Down get big?

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.

I want to be in the best band in the world again.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

We don't necessarily want to do a biopic. Mostly because it's like, 'Big deal. Band gets together and gets big. Then the excesses come and they fall apart.'

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.

There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.