Quotes About Band

I love playing with Slash, and the chemistry I have with the rest of the guys in his band is fantastic.

I must have a good chemistry to play because I play every day with the same people. It has to be there. It's essential for a band like Soulfly.

Good Charlotte is very special to us. It's something we really cherish.

I live in Chicago, and I play in a band there.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.

To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.

We are unique because we're the same three guys, and as Billy says, playing the same three chords.

We chose to be a family, not a band.

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

We were extremely lucky that someone discovered us as a band and that we got to experience a type of cinderella story.

I think that's a big part of what I love about the boys in the band, too, and what I find attractive in men in general is, really, the ability to not take everything so seriously because it is rock n' roll after all; it's a freakin' circus. We're not accountants here.

Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'

I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do before performing. I'll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I'll always check my flies.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.

Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the Eagles, he's there to play guitar, and he's there to supply whatever is needed for that band, and that is what I feel with Metallica.

I joined Yes in July 1971. I had heard Yes live, as Strawbs had supported them at a gig in Hull. I thought they were amazing - incredibly different.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

My parents went out of their way for me ever since I left school. When I was 15, I said to Mum, 'I'm leaving school,' and she was like, 'Okay.' I joined a cover band and played three nights a week, and they were really supportive of that.

My parents have always been very supportive. But now that I play in Blink, all of my parents' friends are so jazzed that it makes my folks excited.

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.