Quotes About Band

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.

I never have met any heroes - except one. The exception is Ian Anderson, flute player extraordinaire, creative musical talent for more than 40 years, and the man most associated with the band Jethro Tull.

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.

At all times, musicians are replaceable. Friends are not.

We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

Over thirty-plus years, a certain myth has grown up around the band. And the last thing I ever wanted to do was put us on a stage somewhere, in less than the best circumstances, and pop the bubble, have the fans come in and say, 'Gee, they weren't that good.' It's your responsibility to give them something to be excited about.