When you’re in a band that’s so big when you’re young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn’t be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what...

A band should be more famous than an individual, because all else being equal, the band has more mothers and fathers to lend support.

The sky is full of dreams, but you don’t know how to fly.

I love the sound of the trees in the breeze. If the forest is so clearly musical, why can’t it play the guitar while I sing Nirvana covers?

I certainly didn’t want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything – like Led...

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I had a dream about you. You were the lead guitarist in a band with no voice, and you were holding auditions for lead singer. Everybody in line in front of me and behind me...

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child’s paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries...

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

I believe men belong in the garage, because that’s where the dog food is stored. And the band is kept there. Auditions start after I move the car.

Jealousy, turning saints into the seaSwimming through sick lullabiesChoking on your alibis

A great band name would be Tickling Whiskers. Especially if the lead singer is a cat. I’d love to audition for backup dancer.

Those who serve and those who ruleLepers, kings and mindless foolsEmpire leaders, tyrant’s toolsAll will fade with timeHail the cowards, brave at heartThe ugly and the beautifulThose who never felt their soulsAll live transient lives

People in bands don’t have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

I learned to play piano in a rock n’ roll context or band context from country records – you know, Floyd Cramer – and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none...

I’d like to make the argument that The Cars were the first garage band.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

I play in a band called ‘Moi non plus’ with some friends.

Pantera is the only band I’ve ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part...

This band – because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars – we’ve done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

Maybe you’ll change Abandon all your wicked waysMake amends and start anew againMaybe you’ll seeAll the wrongs you did to meAnd start all over, start all over again.Who am i kidding?Now, lets not get overzealous...

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

You can’t become a famous garage band if you never perform outside your garage. That’s why my band plays in my driveway.

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They’re one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique...

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an ‘alternative band.’

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

The Band is sounding real good. We’ve been doing some dates together and they’ve been going well.

I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.

A band’s first album’s usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Fee-fi-fo-fum, you better run and hideI smell the blood of a petty little coward

It’s not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That’s just many people’s opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that’s okay.

I make music like I make love—in a group. OK, so I’m not in a band, and I sing alone in the shower.

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don’t want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same...

You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can’t give up. I wouldn’t give up. I didn’t give up – or doubt myself...

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

The Who, England’s most self-conscious band, have released ‘Quadrophenia,’ which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the...

You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.

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.

Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.

I like pop, rock n’ roll, big band, Broadway – I like all those elements.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.