Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.
Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.
The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a b...
I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of ...
Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up...
I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.
The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.
I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.
My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce an...
I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
