Band Popularity Quotes

The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

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.

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

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.

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

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

I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

The media, being what it is, is always looking for the next new thing. There are still bands out there playing, no matter what the new thing is. The Stones go out there, and people go see them without records or even airplay.

Iron Maiden and Metallica are bigger now than they ever were. They're playing stadiums across the entire planet. Even though it seems like their heyday was back when MTV and the radio played their songs all the time, the truth is that they've gotten bigger now because they play all the time, and people know they're going to get a great show.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

Every Mr. Big album is an event.

The first Maiden record I ever got was 'Piece of Mind,' and I only got it because I thought the artwork was cool, and everyone talked about Iron Maiden. But they weren't necessarily the most popular metal band in America for a 12-year-old kid when I discovered them.

In this day and age, though, no matter how many people you play for, if you're playing with a band like Blink, millions of people will see it thanks to YouTube and everything recording it.

Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.

With Damageplan, we had to endure the Pantera fans, because Pantera is what they really wanted. But with Hellyeah, at a show in Baltimore, the crowd knew all the words.

We've got a younger fan base - and their parents. One day when we were at Abbey Road, an entire family was outside waiting for us - like, a nine-year-old, a 16-year-old, and their mother. They can agree on liking us for whatever reason. It's kind of strange.

The fan support throughout the years, and the new generation, has made Zeppelin larger than life.

Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that's this big. That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we're not.

At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes - a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a good live show.