#ban

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#abandon #enter #here #who

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us. ↗

— Steven Adler

#bands #different #five #guns #guys

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. ↗

— Doc Watson

#banjo #came #first #first love #guitar

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength. ↗

— Steve Albini

#bands #contract #exact #hundred #label

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#back #bandits #been #even #had

We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. ↗

— John R. Allen

#again #al #becoming #down #facilitate

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band. ↗

— Rick Allen

#away #band #close #could #difficult

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country. ↗

— Tom Allen

#bankrupting #bush #bush administration #country #house

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#half #i #probably #reason #see