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.
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.
I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it.
Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
