Quotes About Band

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

In many ways I think 'Fly From Here' is a return to classic Yes; people seem to have been really enjoying it, integrated into the set along with the old material.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

dancing in various strangely old-fashioned places around LA., especially one place that is now gone, called the Black Forest, where a German band played, and tall USC alumni of German descent did gorgeous old waltzes.

It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.

How many instruments should one to expect to HEAR in a 'rubber- band'?

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

they were now calling themselves the Beatles.

Anyone who finds there way to the front of a rock band, standing in the spotlight in the center of the stage, has definitely got a Messianic complex, and the shy ones, the kind of "oh, how did this happen to me" ones, they're the very worst kinds of Messianic complex. A lot of artists play that.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

What we're about in this band, I hope...is that we put people before ideas.

praying to find the intimacy of a band that could be useful to our audience this evening

Radar, his youngest brother, who appeared on the cover of two of U2's early albums, Boy and War.

I'm one in four, and a real rock 'n' roll band is not run by the singer. Led maybe, but not run.

Rock music was most exciting when it was in the 45 [rpm single], when it was disciplined into a single. Whether it was the Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, Nirvana, the Beatles, the Stones. When the wind starts blowing in the hair, and it meanders off, you can get some great [stuff], but it doesn't interest me as much. The 45 is the pure rock to me. That is why I wanted to be in a band.

I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.