A Ha Band Quotes

“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them
was hurt or molested by our band. ( ... )
The whites were complaining at the same time that we were intruding upon
their rights. They made it appear that they were the injured party, and
we the intruders. They called loudly to the great war chief to protect
their property.
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right
look like wrong, and wrong like right.”

— Black Hawk

“I smell guilt. There is a stench of guilt upon the air.
I see you all, whole and healthy, with your powers intact - such prompt appearances! - and I ask myself ... why did this band of wizards never come to the aid of their master, to whom they swore eternal loyalty? And I answer myself, they must have believed me broken, they thought I was gone. They slipped back among my enemies, and they pleaded innocence, and ignorance, and bewitchment ...
And then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any wizard living? And I answer myself, perhaps they believed a still greater power could exist, one that could vanquish even Lord Voldemort ... perhaps they now pay allegiance to another ...”

— J.K. Rowling

“And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.”

— Robert Fripp

“I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.”

— Laura Bell Bundy

“Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.”

— Gary Cherone

“I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.”

— Lita Ford

“If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.”

— Jack Black

“We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.”

— Joe Elliott

“Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.”

— Peter Tork

“I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't.”

— Art Alexakis

“'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.”

— Brandon Flowers

“Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.”

— Kim Gordon

“I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.”

— Steve Albini

“Abel lifted her up - another gesture from former times, from when she'd been smaller - and carried her to the bathroom to find the Band-aid. Suddenly, Anna thought, she's growing up. One day, she'll be too big to be carried around like that. One day, he won't be able to hold onto her, she'll move on, and he'll be left all alone. Maybe the responsibility for Micha is more of an anchor than a burden. A lifeboat. A wooden plank to hold onto so you don't drown.”

— Antonia Michaelis

“Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.”

— Hoagy Carmichael

“Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.”

— Adam Baldwin

“Metallica came along for me at a time and had an affect on me that I feel is the most pivotal moment of my life. I don't think there's been anything else that's even come close that's affected me in the way that that band did when I was a child when I was 11 or 12 years old, and where it went from there.”

— Jeff Kendrick

“Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.”

— Ryan Jarman

“I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.”

— Michael Gira

“You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.”

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

“My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.”

— Oliver Sykes

“Have to stay together, can't switch band, but you can have a boyfriend, have to get a boyfriend..!!!”

— Kim Kyu-jong

“Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".”

— Duke Ellington

“Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.”

— Jay McInerney

“It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.”

— Steve Albini

“What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!”

— John Fogerty

“Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.”

— Billy Corgan

“The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.”

— Chuck D

“Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.”

— Conor Oberst