If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

You can see it in people's faces, when they're into a metal band. It's cool to see that being passed on.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules. By that definition, we are a hardcore band.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

I've really never discovered a band from Spotify or anything. I've really only discovered it from friends.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.

No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend." "We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested

Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

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