Colin Salmon Quotes

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

I go to the studio every night.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

I think me and Kristen Bell are going to start a band. It's called Kung-Fu Professor.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

Our very first group was called The Prunes.' We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - those guys were great.

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

We've been here since 1983 as a band.

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

AC/DC is a tough gig for everyone in the band.