- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Band Quotes
On lineups, tours, and finding your place on stage.
One musician jokes about feeling like a mismatched fit in his own band, while another describes a group that never actually writes songs together in a room the way outsiders assume. Read more in our Just quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was just one time when the band took a big break, and I did that Nina project in Japan in 1999.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe that we're a studio-based band, and I have always thought that.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.
- Nov 07, 2020
Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.
- I Was Raised
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020