You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. – Michael Connelly
I’m not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the ’80s. – Chris McCaughan
How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I’ve never even heard of them? – Jon Bon Jovi
Thanks, but that’s not going to fix anything. It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. – C.C. Hunter
Starting in the mid-’80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured. – John Hawkes
There’s always some promoter having an ’80s night, saying, We’ll supply the band. All you can drink. – Nik Kershaw
Band-Aids don’t fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts. – Taylor Swift
I get a lot from great ’90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders. – Margaret Cho
The ’80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. – Geezer Butler
Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds. – Fred Armisen
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn’t realise it. English pop ruled the world in the ’80s! – Cee Lo Green
Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an ’80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990. – David Pajo
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world. – Billie Joe Armstrong
I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. – Yann Tiersen
There’s a focus that hasn’t been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s. – Graham Coxon
It seemed like, in the early ’80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be. – Bucky Pope
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. – Jonathan Safran Foer
The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it’s all a bit weird. – Alvin Lee
The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism. – Vanessa Veselka
My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in ’80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you’re either still there, or you’re struggling to get back to where you were. – Steve Valentine
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political. – Penelope Spheeris
So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. – Jello Biafra
I’m kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn’t that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing. – Cliff Martinez
It’s really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you’re in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person. – Stevie Nicks
I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn’t really know too much about their music. – Gus Van Sant
The first music I ever got into was the ’80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade. – Conor Oberst
I don’t have to come back, because I am still here! And I’m not an ’80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo ’70s, young man. I’m a ’70s thing. If I’m a thing at all… and an exciting thing. – Nina Hagen
I feel like now if you’re going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or “We’re in a library for some reason!” – Babatunde Adebimpe
In the 80s there weren’t so many bands around and nowadays there are a lot more bands around. I think sometimes there are too many bands. But there are a lot of interesting young bands around. They are not really playing the classic metal stuff, that’s up to the old bands. – Udo Dirkschneider
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I’d go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’. – D. H. Lawrence
