Musical Teamwork Quotes

I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.

Don't get 'Return of The Mac' confused as a solo album. That was just a mixtape.

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

I hope it isn't exclusively true, but I often find that collaboration is the best way... to reach my highest musical place. Because I get so inspired by another good musician; I feed off that.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

A vocal performance “Coming Together” is hard, but it's the kind of hard that if you work hard enough at it, you can do it and it feels great, because it was so hard. So we'll continue maybe even over the next couple of years to perform that and to expand our collaborative repertoire.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.