Band Success Quotes

I know I'm in the best band in the world.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.

I've literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records was an obvious choice. I wanted to be the person to bring this seasoned band to a new culture and audience. I'm really proud of them.

I don't know how these bands did it back in the '70s when they would crank out two records a year and tour at the same time, which is incredible to me. I have so much respect for all those bands working so hard like that.

Lilith Fair was a great experience for us the first time we played it. We were... not a new band, but a new band as far as mainstream kind of airplay or success.

When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.

After bands become successful, they always make that choice to do the record about how cool or how hard it is to be in a successful band.

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.

We never set out to be this punk rock band that's going to stay small and tour in a van forever. We wanted to take our band to a level where we could do everything we want to do.

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.

I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

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

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

No, I never envisioned the band lasting this long. But then again, I cant envision next week, even though I have a schedule.

That's why, to this day, K.I.S.S. can sell out wherever they go... because they sell tickets, and they have that core fan base. You may not hear K.I.S.S. on the radio with a new single today. And they can still sell out anywhere.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

Static-X had a great run. We did everything we wanted to do and everyone wanted to do their own thing for a while.