"What kind of band are you? Are you Rush and you all get along for 50 years or are you the Eagles and you just fight all the time?"
"The magic lies in the essence and harmony within the members of the band."
"It's really because when you actually are playing it with people in the same room, and then you're thinking about not only the guitar parts but what the bass is doing... you realize how complex it is."
"Because the idea of going back to a band situation after 40 years with Neil, plus almost 50 years with Alex, was claustrophobic to me."
"What makes a good band member... you have to become a family even though you're not a family by blood."
"It’s easy to fall for saying that there is no The Doors without Jim Morrison, but I think it’s more accurate to say there is no Jim Morrison without The Doors."
"Little-known guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks closed out the year by joining the rock group Fleetwood Mac."
"We want to get to 50. Uh, we had the super group, any big hitters?"
"Do you realize that on this album we only realized it over the weekend Ringo hadn't got a song?"
"The Beatles would not have been as good as they were without Ringo."
"We are the band because of the way we work together, and that's always been apparent."
"Odd is good, and rather typically, the band started to feel tensions rising as they recorded this record, resulting in another hiatus, surprise surprise."
"That's what the Motley [ __ ] crew was: a band that made mistakes but in the end, it was a fun ride."
"The anticipation of sharing it when you're with the band, and you're like, 'I cannot wait to share this.'"
"It really does represent an artist who has the ultimate backing of his band who can harness anything put before them even this journey into a new rockier sound."
"The guitar playing was awesome and the three-part harmonies, yeah."
"Everybody's seen suffering in their friends and family, but you can find happiness in the little things."
"It's very important for a band to be friends with each other."
"You can just tell a story and be in a band. You don't have to necessarily be Al Green and be in a band."
"We've been rocking and rolling with each other forever regardless of whatever problems so we'll be good."
"Proof was considered the glue that kept the members of D12 together."
"Everyone in the band just wants to be there and everyone's excited about the songs."
"Nine out of 10 players become bass players from one of two reasons: they either failed as a guitar player or no one needed a guitar player."
"I don't know if I've ever heard a band that can transition as smoothly into different grooves."
"I respect the fact that they were able to uh just to keep you guessing man."
"Saint Anger, for all its faults, kept them together long enough to survive."
"We wanted to expand our sound without expanding the size of the band."
"Sid Barrett wasn't trying to be a control freak and have everything delineated as it should be."
"Led Zeppelin always in favor of venturing into new musical territory."
"According to Nick Mason Roger was studiously ignoring all of David's suggestions..."
"Our working relationship was still good during the making of 'Dark Side,' we had massive rows about the way it should be."
"Chris Cornell had everything he'd ever dreamed of, a band he loved, the freedom to write music and lyrics he was truly passionate about."
"As soon as we got back together to rehearse for our first show back... everything just sort of clicked right back into place."
"They became one of the most famous bands in the history of music thanks to her."
"We were on tour with them and there's like these weird moments that would happen when hindsight look back and be like oh that was a band about to get huge."
"It was actually so bad I'm not gonna say that I don't think there would have been another record if he was still with us like Danny came into our group because we'd known him for a long time and brought like a new I think light or life to the band."
"There's also an emotional component because there is the transition from cliff to jason and also just the willingness to say OK we've gone through an enormous trauma... but we've got to get back to it we can't just quit." - Lars Ulrich
"The power of having the right drummer in the right band."
"I've just finished a few shows just at the piano so now I'm excited to kind of get out there with the band and really enjoy just kind of dancing and hopefully making people happy with the music."
"Whatever music we make when we're in that room together is death from above."
"Lemonade mouth is really just about kids forming a band doing their thing and there's nothing like spectacular about it."
"This wasn't from nowhere but it's like, uh, when, I believe they did for a while or at least didn't tour, anybody, Anthrax, uh, when that happened."
"It's rare for a band who's gone through so much turmoil and lineup changes to still stay relevant after all these years."
"At a time when bands were not re-exploring virtuosity or they were in a very paced intellectual way, they were an exuberant band, you know? An exuberant band that were fun, but were virtuoso."
"We couldn’t have really fitted in with grunge, because we were just a different type of a band."
"Behind the shiny album cover vibes and sales, Led Zeppelin fought silent battles on and off the stage."
"Sterling Morrison's guitar playing and its contribution to the group's overall sound have you got a band with Lou Reed and John Cale fronting it."
"For me, that was the apex of the creativity of the band."
"Once Dave joined, Nirvana was just like a tight machine." - Chris Novoselich
"Well Angels and Airwaves we have, I'm able to, we're so small that there's not really, there's nothing that we're gonna do that might impact old or necessarily new fans."
"Blackmore to me was a great leader of a band... whether it was immature or not."
"Good bands do this even if they don't know what neutral thirds and Mixolydian are."
"Yesterday we lost our brother... He was everything that was wonderful about this band."
"Dave Murray is a lead guitarist... Adrian is far more of a rhythm player. He's a great lead player as well, but he's also a songwriter."
"Finding someone who's sympathetic to the band's organic process is the most important thing."
"But the fact that we were in a strange place with strange things happening, there was now only three of us in the band instead of five."
"We've had good luck with it and it's, you know, that's the thing. It's like, that's it. It's just all of this stuff is, it's part of the sound of the live band, you know?"
"He did not leave the band, we kicked him out."
"The meeting was included in Metallica’s 2003 documentary Some Kind of Monster, which chronicles the band dealing with their internal issues and the making of their album St. Anger."
"The chemistry of the band was correct the time was right for that chemistry to work."
"Soul Coughing was this weird universe–sort of a Dante’s Inferno, where I was the devil’s asshole, and there was the band, the management, the record company, and everybody hated me."
"First of all, a lot of the so-called tension and negativity within the band that people have alluded to over the years is much exaggerated. It was almost thrust upon us because people were looking for it. The band actually got along fine." - Black Francis
"You know when you fall in love? I'm assuming that happens in a band."
"I think that's the best time in any band's history when they first start, you know, nobody's gone mental yet or anything, and it's just a remarkable time to be around that band."
"The band is like in a constant state of the masturbation contest."
"It's like one of those bands that you can't replace a member and still have the same sound."
"...when you play in a band, it's really important to understand how music is put together and communicate with other musicians."
"I also miss buying new gear because I had a good excuse to, so when you're in a band especially a variety band where you have to play all sorts of music, it's fun to be able to justify your purchases because you have to sound like a certain band or a certain artist."
"A band needs to play like a band."
"That was at a time before people had conversations about mental health issues and depression and bipolar issues. And we as a band we were young and ill-equipped to handle that. He just couldn't keep going like he was."
"I guess that means Pink Floyd is over, right? I mean, how can they continue without their leader? Oh, they'll find a way even if they have to fight for it."
"Our band is almost like a hockey team. You need that camaraderie and chemistry."
"This without a doubt caused tension in the band."
"Other bands have been ruined by the same kind of occasional changes in personnel but you guys just seem to grow and the sound gets even stronger."
"It is them at their best of times and their worst of times."
"The Eagles emerged partly because of a work ethic. There was a determination on the part of the group, especially Henley and Frey, to make it no matter what."
"There's no lies, there's no secrets in the band or any BS like that."
"Rob coming in the band gave us a nice kick."
"I think that's another reason why we've been able to put so many years into the band because we all have varied interests musically outside of heavy metal."
"A big part of the creative process of this band, and I deserved to have a little more input and fealty in where the band goes."
"It's not like the Beatles who found each other, and they show up as a band like a corporation does tryouts and kind of puts these groups together, but my argument is always the ones that become the biggest in the world have incredible talent behind them."
"It's just the way they played together, you know? It's was pretty incredible to hear that."
"No other drummer can do that and I mean what drummer can? You know, sit behind Jimmy Page and tell him what to do. But he had this healthy disrespect of the other guys on the stage with him, and he knew he was driving it. And they respected him and they followed him."
"You can kind of hear the rest of the band because it's live, everybody's in the same room, you have an entire orchestra."
"The addition of Johnny to our dysfunctional band family was one of the best choices that we have ever made."
"When you're playing in a band, your number one goal should be finding your space in the music."
"...it's been helpful to have this distance and this real freedom outside of the band, and it really makes it special when we do get together, you know?"
"That's a band that I think really worked."
"We're here to judge the music on its own merit, not who was or wasn't in the band at the time of conception."
"A band is always better when they're being themselves at the time that they are."
"This was a band after all, and the willingness of all participants was a collective effort."
"Instead of a good drummer and a good bass player, you apply yourself to the song, to the music."
"I thought it was a great telling of the personal struggles between band members and how each character had to overcome their own internal obstacles."
"It's almost like we're a real band after all these weeks."
"Jagger and Richards became the band's songwriters and primary creative forces."
"Part of the magic of Duran Duran and other bands is the sort of X factor that comes from the chemistry of the members of it."
"There's a great sense of humor that runs through that band, which I think is really great."
"Fab making good music in a band is all about chemistry."
"It's built around a band, you know? It's a band sound, it's band involvement."
"The Alchemy of our band was slowly reconnecting."
"His talents are ridiculous, so hard to replace someone like that."
"Pete was a great drummer but Ringo was a great Beatle."
"A band is a band, I mean more or less, you know what I mean."
"It's amazing to me that any band stays together for any length of time."
"Life isn't fair, but that's what a band is."
"Just that little sort of way of thinking is the reason why we're still a band."
"What if I told you that the Eagles were fated to fall apart from the very beginning?"
"In my experience, all rock and roll bands are on the verge of breaking up at all times."
"Megadeth was different from a lot of other bands because Megadeth had so many changes and stuff that it was almost like jazz."
"Try not to think of it as your song; it's now your idea turned into all of your collective, the band's song."
"Nothing really kills a party vibe like feeling like the band are holding back."
"It's one thing to have like one superstar in a band... but to have seven of these guys, all the same tier, it's just wild."
"Phil was such a joker, he brought this lightness to the band."
"Liam is the most grounded member of the group, the band sort of described him as their unofficial leader."
"The band is a band highly intent on change and ever onward pressing as far you know into through the boundaries as one can possibly go."
"I would so much rather be in a band with a person who is a great hang and a good player than a great player and a not so good hang."
"I like to act like I'm a member of the band, not like I'm your producer."
"Any one of us in the band becomes the composer, so it's always a very exciting style of music."
"We won't go our separate ways after this album, and we'll always be tied up with each other in some way."
"You're the heart and soul of the band."
"If you have a mediocre band and a great drummer, you have a great band."
"It's teamwork, and this is how bands work."
"That chemistry you get when you get four people in the room and they just got something about them that is really special."
"If you listen to the Rhythm Section... that's the foundation."
"The reunion of Van Halen is not put together by a team of Hollywood people; it's like a 15-year-old genius, Wolfgang."
"Have you ever seen the rain was really about the fact that the band were cracking up."
"When you haven't played, jammed together in a room with your bandmates in almost a year, it's really cool when you come together."
"That's the nature of bands, especially rock and roll bands."
"Nothing that's ever written by any one person in this band finishes that way; it has to go through the filter of everybody in the band before it actually becomes a Slipknot song."
"As a bass player, you and the drummer are one of the most important parts of the band."
"You want to neatly slice through, give it your part, say your lead line, and then get back into the mix."
"They were kind of glued together."
"If Yoko wasn't around and John was still looking to Paul for that relationship... I think the Beatles would have stayed together."
"We were more than just a band; we're a family."
"If anybody throws shade at Ringo, they're an idiot because they don't know how hard it is to be in a band and play the right parts."