Merkins Band Quotes

#1. The riff-raff that exists in every society rises to the surface in any time of transition, and is utterly devoid not only of any goal, but even the slightest indication of an idea, and merely gives expression to restlessness and impatience as forcefully as it can. Meanwhile, the riff-raff, without being aware of it, almost always falls under the sway of that small band of 'advanced people' which acts with a definite goal, and which points all this rabble in whatever direction they please, provided that they in turn don't consist of utter idiots as well, which, however, also happens. #Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. The sight of a pretty woman had an airborne chemical effect, like nerve gas. It relaxed the rubber band around his wallet. #Quote by A.J. Liebling

#3. None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in. #Quote by Wanda Jackson

#4. I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment. #Quote by Adam Schlesinger

#5. With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom #Quote by John De Ruiter

#6. We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times. #Quote by Rex Smith

#7. Whenever I set out in a new direction, whether it's with a new band or being a frontman or writing a comic book or entering into movie scoring or anything like that, I wouldn't say that I do it fearlessly. #Quote by Tom Morello

#8. The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums. #Quote by Levon Helm

#9. The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case. #Quote by Paul Banks

#10. We socialists, anarchists, hoboes, chicken thieves, outlaws and undesirable citizens of the U>S> are with you heart and soul. You will notice that we are not respectable. Neither are you. No revolutionary can possibly be respectable in these days of the reign of property ... I for one wish there were more outlaws of the sort that formed the gallant band that took Mexicali. #Quote by Jack London

#11. It might not seem self-evident that impunity for white violence against blacks would engender black-on-black murder. But when people are stripped of legal protection and placed in desperate straits, they are more, not less, likely to turn on each other. Lawless settings are terrifying; if people can do whatever they want to each other, there are always enough bullies to make it ugly. Americans are nostalgic for the village setting and hold dear the notion of community, so the idea that the oppressed do not band together in solidarity is counter to our myths. But community spawns communal justice; the village gives rise to the feud. #Quote by Jill Leovy

#12. I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of my songs to a whole new level. I wouldn't say I really change what I do but, having those talented musicians behind me, along with my band, really makes the songs so much bigger and more fun to sing. #Quote by Olivia Newton-John

#13. I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music. #Quote by Johnny Marr

#14. He is less a human-shaped thing and more a pulsing, living band of light. Light that sometimes dims, that sometimes is thrust through with a vein of darkness. She tells herself that it's normal - Luke said to her, Leia, we all have that. He explained that the brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Right #Quote by Chuck Wendig

#15. Watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow. #Quote by The Band Perry

#16. There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all. #Quote by Autre Ne Veut

#17. Just start dancing and the band will find you. #Quote by Tama J. Kieves

#18. I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years. #Quote by Elizabeth Warren

#19. I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio. #Quote by Greil Marcus

#20. Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous. #Quote by Margery Allingham

#21. Well?" Occipus said. Without an announcer translating his words, he possessed a flat, froggy voice. The announcer, who had long, curly blond hair that hug to his shoulders, reminded Brendan of Roger Daltrey, the vain lead singer of his dad's favorite band, the Who. He whipped back his long mane and said, "Emperor Occipus says, 'Well? #Quote by Chris Columbus

#22. The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time. #Quote by Tom Petty

#23. The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect. #Quote by Elton John

#24. I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites. #Quote by Jojo

#25. force them to band together. Jim imagined himself and Franny striding into a Mallorcan courtroom, the bump on Franny's head now the size of a tennis ball, hard proof of Antoni's negligence. "And how are you?" Charles asked. He purposefully #Quote by Emma Straub

#26. I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. #Quote by Bobby Vinton

#27. I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John ... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed. #Quote by Roger Andrew Taylor

#28. My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and there would be tons of subs and lights. It'd be really dope. #Quote by Justin Vernon

#29. The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10. #Quote by Larry MacPhail

#30. I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag? #Quote by Colin Greenwood

#31. The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews. #Quote by Adam Levine

#32. Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting. #Quote by Freddie Mercury

#33. Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. #Quote by Scott Westerfeld

#34. I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s. #Quote by Ed Robertson

#35. Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't ... you're blind! #Quote by Jeff Healey

#36. Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. #Quote by Dylan Moran

#37. This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well. #Quote by Mikey Way

#38. There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere. #Quote by Patrick Stump

#39. The Mercy Band," which is guiding this work, endeavoring to bring humanity to a realization of the simplicity of the transition called death, and the importance of a rational understanding of what becomes of the spirits. #Quote by Carl A. Wickland

#40. I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. #Quote by Dave Matthews Band

#41. People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a band or start painting. That way you'll feel like you have a purpose if you lose your mind, and you'll have some fun on the way. #Quote by Josh Jones

#42. Looking back at those early days in the band house, we can all see how important they were in helping us bond as a band. It could have gone so wrong. Danny and I had picked Harry and Dougie after, literally, two days of knowing them. We could have all hated each other. We could have found that we had nothing in common, or that we resented the time we spent with each other. In fact, we had such a lot of fun. We weren't yet famous or successful, but already we were having the time of our lives. Even when we hit the big time, we didn't want to go out to clubs or celebrity haunts. Not our scene. For us, the best thing about being in a band was being in a band, doing band stuff - not all the trappings that went with it. We liked working on our music, and we liked hanging out together. All this meant we gelled more than most bands ever have the opportunity or inclination to do. Within a couple of months of moving into the band house, I had three new best friends. Their names were Danny, Harry and Dougie. No matter what the future held for us, our friendship was something we now know we could always rely on. #Quote by Tom Fletcher

#43. When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool. #Quote by Levon Helm

#44. My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure. #Quote by Analeigh Tipton

#45. If your fiancé tended to come sailing in windows without notice, you didn't have extra time to run and gather up messes. She dropped everything into the hamper and stepped into a hot, steamy shower, soap with no cloying scent, just clean. Just her again. And her eyes shut while she was standing there. She'd slip down the shower wall and go to sleep there, but she was already getting stiff. She got out, delved into the medicine cabinet for a couple of Advil and chased them down with a glass of water. Clean, clear water. A miracle. She stood watching crystal liquid swirl down the drain and thought somehow she'd never asked herself how water got that clean. She splashed it up in her face, dried her Band-Aids with a towel And went and turned on her computer. Last thing. Last defining thing – on any day.-Lois Lane #Quote by C.J. Cherryh

#46. I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music. #Quote by Philip Glass