Band Names Quotes

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.

Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

A lot of bands have intense names, like "Rigor Mortis" or "Mortuary". We weren't that intense, we called ourselves "Injured". Later on we changed it to "Acapella" when we were walking out of the pawn shop.

It's really hard to name a band.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

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

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.