I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.
My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.
I love music, and I love drumlines. I like school bands a lot. There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but I'd rather be a band geek. It's a little more interesting.
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.
I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
