Band Quotes
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When I played out it was just me and the guitar but now it’s just messing with the full band for the longest time, kind of putting the show together and trying to make a live show that is worth people coming to and spending their money on.
Jordan Davis
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The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.
Neal Schon
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I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.
Michael Sweet
Boston
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We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
Dustin Hoffman
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If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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The way I see it is that we've got three very effective frontmen in the group and I think that's enough for any band. If you had five frontmen, they'd start bumping into each other, not just physically, but also mentally in terms of writing and everything.
Ian Hill
Judas Priest
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Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.
Adam Schlesinger
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I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.
Lyle Lovett
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I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.
Neal Schon
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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
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Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.
James Hetfield
Metallica
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I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.
Eric Burdon
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I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
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When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
Alice Cooper
