Quotes About Band

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - those guys were great.

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

I really enjoy the moments with Alter Bridge where I can step out and play lead and have fun.

When we first started, and I jumped in this band, I was like, 'I'm not a singer.' I didn't go to school to sing. I just played to have fun. But these guys teach me, and they show me stuff and give me courage to try new stuff.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

We are firm believers that the first time somebody hears a brand new song from the band, it shouldn't be on a cell phone camera with the distortion or anything where you can't make it out. We want to present it right.

I do not run my band like The Eagles, for sure. I've never had to be heavy handed.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

The song 'Hello There' was written because we never got a soundcheck. 'Hello There' was our soundcheck.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue where ego gets involved and causes some kind of shake-up.

I had a band and I didn't go to high school, all my friends were older than me. It was pretty cool to have such a focus at that age, but also it alienated me from a lot of people my age. So I felt pretty lonely and I didn't really have many friends when I was a kid.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.

I've tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band's legacy than with the commercial aspects of life.

One of the reasons I wanted a sax in the band was that I loved Fats Domino's 'Blueberry Hill.'

If you take the riff from the song 'Cowboys From Hell' and really break it down, it's almost a hillbilly guitar riff: dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dek.

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.