Quotes About Inspiration

I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

It just seems like Baltimore, talent-wise, nothing can touch it.

We're tying to get Baltimore on the right track.

I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each other - and then I'll bring the song to the band.

It's really hard to name a band.

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.

We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing.

Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

I'm a big Black Crowes guy. I think they are one of America's greatest rock & roll bands ever.

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.

The bandstand is a sacred place.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.