#ban

I was raised really poor and so was my husband. ↗

— Jewel

#i #i was raised #poor #raised #really

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. ↗

— Ma Jian

#before #beijing #books #continually #i

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites. ↗

— JoJo

#favorites #i #i think #incredible #love

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. ↗

— Billy Joel

#ban #banned #did #die #good

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#beef #egypt #excited #had #lebanon

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately. ↗

— David Johansen

#brian #full #had #haven #i

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. ↗

— David Johansen

#blues #comes #especially #even #i

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records. ↗

— David Johansen

#better #collecting #david #had #i

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands. ↗

— David Johansen

#commercial #enterprises #i #most #those

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant. ↗

— David Johansen

#flamboyant #rock #roll #roll band #supposed