Quotes About Band

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

The Lifted Crew, I think that they're a great band that plays great soul music. They may have studied a lot of soul, but really, their heart and soul is in hip-hop.

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.

Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

We get to travel to Siberia, Japan, China, Australia, South America and even the little cities all around America. It's probably my favorite thing about being in a band.

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

I don't travel that much with my band Los Pacaminos as it's quite a big crowd, but we got invited down to southern Italy once.

What band does the necromancer dance to? Boney M.)

I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go.

This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.

Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.