One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.
My teammates at Duke - all of them, black and white - were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball.
Our kids are in a little band, and they like to play video games, and my wife and I do our best to live a low-key, non-Hollywood kind of life.
I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.
I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.
I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.
People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
