Band Performance Quotes

You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

There's such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on the run-up to the O2 concert, the only music that we played was music of Led Zeppelin - the past catalog stuff; that's what we played on the way towards shaping up the set list for that. But we played really, really well.

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.

It'd be cool to do something with Coldplay, and Ryan Tedder's amazing.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

I was in two very horrible bands.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

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!

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

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

We made 'Shutterbugs' and 'The Illusionators' to play live at UCB.

I like Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch, with whom I did a single.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

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

I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

For 'Rock On,' we not only acted as rock musicians; we also went into the studio to record songs and jammed live to get the concert feel right.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.