Alison Pill Quotes

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

I've always been very happy with my role in Radiohead. You're very much a part of everything, but you're much more of a shadowy figure.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did.

I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play grindcore or be in a scream-o band, so it was fun to finally have that experience of having my songs backed by a drummer and a bassist who were just as excited about it as I was.

My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.