Band Loyalty Quotes

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

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

I don't wanna be a solo artist. I wanna be in Styx.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

I've been into 3IOB since 'Battle Cry Under a Winter's Sun.' I've wanted to work with them since.

When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].

Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.

I've been a fan of Zombie's since the beginning. I've toured with them and have always wanted to play for them.

I've seen those kids at the shows, I can hear them, and I can certainly tell the difference between one of our fans and a Fall Out Boy fan who's just there because they heard we were hot.

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

I won't join another band again.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

I've obsessed over a lot of bands in my time, and I'm sure I'll become infatuated with a lot more in the future.

Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.

I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first.

It's nice to be respected, but it doesn't really matter. What's important is that if I wasn't in Slayer, it's still the band I'd want to see.

I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us.

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay focused.

Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.

Kiss will always be Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley to me.