Quotes About Band

Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation.

I was more of a melodic player. Angus was more into the rock world. Straightaway, I said this is how we should do it. It was never a brotherly squabble but the opposite, because we just wanted to do good as a band.

What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.

Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time.

I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.

I love being in the band, I love being that person and it's such a beautiful and ridiculous adventure but that has an effect mentally, good and bad, just from being the age we were.

I always wear Chuck Taylors, but then I found out that you could actually get your own shoes, so I mentioned it to the band, and they said, 'Yeah! Let's do it' And we got 'em. That's how it works.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

Even before we had a band, the merging of music and movies just seemed so perfect.

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called 'female-fronted metal.'

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

We're a rock n' roll band. We play heavy metal music. And we want to give you a great time. That's basically how it all boils down.