Band Rehearsals Quotes

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!

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life.

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.

For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.

I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.

I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'

Modifidious was my first real band.

After the Texas Playboys and during that time, I had this band in college that I was in called Thrift Store Cowboys. It was me and a couple other dudes would write the songs.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

Hazen Street knew I wasn't going to be able to be in the band once it got started. It was fun to be a part of, but New Found Glory is my full-time thing.

I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.

There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.