Band Quotes
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Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form.
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
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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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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.
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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
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I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'
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My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
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The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
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I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
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I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
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I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."
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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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I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.
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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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While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.
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So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.
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The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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They The Beatles were the first band to not have a lead singer in the 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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That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.
