Band Dissolution Quotes

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Static-X had a great run. We did everything we wanted to do and everyone wanted to do their own thing for a while.

After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing songs for my album.

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

Well, when the Raspberries ended in early 1975 suddenly I didn't have to write to anybody's strengths or weaknesses. I was completely wide open and I thought wow, I can write anything I want now. I can use session musicians. I can find another band that sings like the Beach Boys, I can do all kinds of things.

I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.

I have chronic - well, I like to call it late-stage Lyme disease and not chronic, because I like to think someday I'll be all the way cured. It took me a really long time to get diagnosed, and I was misdiagnosed for a long, long time. I was very ill during the end of Le Tigre, which was kind of why that ended, amongst other things.

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't need a band anymore. We became a duo because of technology.

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.

After the 2009 'Cult Of Static' touring cycle ended, I felt that, as a band, Static-X had accomplished everything we set out to accomplish, and now I could finally take the time to do my own thing and make a record that is completely my vision without compromising for anyone or anything.

Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.

I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting to me. People whose bands start out like that, when they break up it's always terrible.