Band Quotes
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Like most bands we're a family, family before band. If we broke up tomorrow, we'd still be friends.
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From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
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There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.
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I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
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I read in a rock magazine that our band had broken up, so I stopped going to rehearsal
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Fame and all that type of stuff is inevitable, but I'm very content having a good band with no negativity, and everyone is on the same page.
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Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.
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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
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I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.
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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel like an outsider. I was treated equally, I was paid equally, and my opinion was sought after.
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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
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But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.
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Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.
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We're a live band. It's what we do best.
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Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
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When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
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I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.
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Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.
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I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.
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When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
