Band Quotes
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I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.
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I have decided not to push my luck by returning to the band. My dear pal Kai Hahto will take my place as a full-time member of the band. I will continue to take care of the band’s businesses in the background, and I’m very much looking forward to what other adventures life has to offer!
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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.
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I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.
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We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.
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A band can define their own success.
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I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
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You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names because of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!
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If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.
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This is sad. I just think it’s a little ridiculous we are still only looking at the surface of one another. Red hair? Blue hair? Pink? Blonde? Short? Long? Whatever. We might as well shave our heads. Hair has nothing to do with the reason we playing music. It’s a style. Something that will never last as long as the songs we play and the words we sing. Listen up ladies in bands, I’m so proud to be one of you and I don’t care if we all look exactly alike or if we are all carbon copies of each other. We have things to say and it’s up to us to get people to not just look but to LISTEN!
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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.
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I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
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A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up.
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We wanted to do something better. We didn't want to do the same record twice. With the second one, we were more attuned to each other as a band.
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I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.
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I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
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Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.
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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.
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Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.
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Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.
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These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.
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The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.
