Band Harmony Quotes

The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.

I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit; it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

The chemistry is everything in a band.

My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.

I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.

We really do get along, I think because we have a bit of respect for each other being in a band. But, of course, we're brothers.

In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go.

It's important to tour with bands that you get along with.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.

Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

I was more of a melodic player. Angus was more into the rock world. Straightaway, I said this is how we should do it. It was never a brotherly squabble but the opposite, because we just wanted to do good as a band.

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.

I think that as a band, we find joy, and we love what we are doing. We are very good friends, so we get on very well, and we have a lot of respect for each other. We have a lot of respect for what Westlife is. We have a very, very solid and strong fan base all over the world.

So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.