When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.
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 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.
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
I once saw two rocks having sex, and I just shook my head because how stupid are those rocks? Don’t they know life only comes from life? Still, I voted for the rock on the left, because we live in a political country where you are free to choose—...
The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched.
Gifts dissolve rocks.
It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
