We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. - Kathy Acker I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name. - Bryan Adams Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. "Well, half of half of our faction." "In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar," Lynn says. - Veronica Roth I have the same one,' he says, laughing. 'On my back.' 'Really? Can I see it?' He presses the bandage over the tattoo and pulls my shirt back over my shoulder. 'Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only... partially. - Veronica Rot...

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact - Randa Abdel Fattah Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins - Mitch Albom My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside. - Aimee Bender I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. - Aimee Bender Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity. - Stephanie Bond Anybody have any mo...

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from. - Gary Allan It's shit punk.[..] That doesn't mean I think punk is shit it means that when someone plays unk ina shit-like manner, it's excruciating. So either find yourself yourself a good punk band or move on, Tom. Because it kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit gifted. - Melina Marchetta But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song. - Travis Barker The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. - Jello Biafra I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all. - Billy Bragg I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation oblivious to the fucking ter...

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. - Geezer Butler We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle. - Gary Cherone I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. - Greg Ginn Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one. - Scott Ian Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. - Al Jourgensen Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses...

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. - Adrian Belew The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum. - Libba Bray Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. - Doug Coupland I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades and stuff! On the floats we would get the depressives, and they wouldn't even have to leave their beds - we'd just roll their beds out of their houses, and they could continue staring off miserably into space. And then for the manics, we'd have the manic marching band, with manics laughing and talking and shopping and fucking and making bad judgment calls. - Carrie Fisher I played the tuba in high school. I want...

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. - Travis Barker The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. - Mike Gordon The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing. - Norman Granz 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. - Jonny Greenwood I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. - Wyclef Jean I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. - Glenn Miller It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. - Gerry Mulligan Now, the instrumenta...

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band. - Nancy Mckeon When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV. - Jason Mraz

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. - Thomas Beecham I wore white gloves. I lived with my mother & father. I was not a child. I was 37 years old. My bottom lip was swollen. I wore white gloves though I was not a servent. I did not play in a brass band. I was not a waiter. I was not a magician. I was the attendant of a museum. - Edward Carey Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army. - A E Coppard In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. - Charles Ives He smiled, looking into the flames. "He used to sleep on the foot of my bed, bad breath and gas and all, and I even took him hunting." "It's odd to take a dog hunting?" "Max? Yeah, sort of like taking along a brass band. He saved a lot of deer f...

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away. - Jello Biafra Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. - Carla Bley My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time. - Suzy Bogguss My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old. - Jimmy Chamberlin Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking. - Stephen King One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes...

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid. - Jim Diamond I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. - Lady Gaga In another language, I'll bet the word "Agatha" means "To shine one's shoes with the water from a toilet made of tin foil." Thinking about all the microwave safe words in the universe makes my feet sweat. I need some new Band Aids. - Jarod Kintz My mouth is often wounded by my sharp words, so sometimes when I'm out in public, I'll wear a large Band Aid over my lips. - Jarod Kintz Instead of putting a Band Aid on your cut finger, why not just amputate at the elbow? See, I'm a problem solver. I should go into politics. - Jarod Kintz