Band Quotes
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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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I want so badly to tell Her it’s going to be all right, that I’ll leave the band and forget this silly crusade. I want to tell Her that I am ready to settle for this life, that she is all I will ever need in the world, and that we’ll never be apart. I want to tell Her that I will protect Her forever. But none of that would be the truth. So I don’t say anything at all.
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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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I always wanted to be a band singer, and of course it was the total end of the big band, but I got the last job. It was a very lucky break.
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For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.
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My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
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We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
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Some of us band members have September birthdays, and we wanted to have a party.
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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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Touring, it's really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that's why there's so few bands that do work, actually, 'cause there's so much that goes into it.
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A band can define their own success.
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The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
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When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
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We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
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For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.
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I left the band because of a big misconception. I thought I could just take a “back seat” carrying on writing songs without performing!
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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
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After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
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You don’t go to a show because you think someone in the band is hot.
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In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
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I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.
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When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.
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How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?
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There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.
