Band Size Quotes

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

The larger the band gets, the more people from the label get involved.

I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered.

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.

Even when we were at that point when we had very few fans, we never felt like a small band. We always felt like we had a big purpose.

I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.

With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.