Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and…

I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the idea behind…

— Andy Biersack

I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to…

— Lou Barlow

It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category…

— David First

Basically we would go to places and we would see bands trying to sound like us opening up for us, 1-2-3-4 with the leather…

— Marky Ramone

Just because we give the impression that life's a certain way because of technology, there are still people having a rough time of it.…

— Steve Ignorant

Bands now are always trying to make their presence known through social networking and whatnot, but that's just the same as bands before the…

— Jeff Rosenstock

I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some…

— Mac DeMarco

When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that they had…

— Philip Bailey

Bands are like relationships, you know. You are kind of in a relationship with a bunch of people at one time, but this feels…

— Ali Koehler

There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass…

— June Millington

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

— Ikue Mori

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I…

— Lzzy Hale

I'd been playing in bands for something like seven years at this point. And we were always trying to get ahead, trying to rehearse…

— Aerosmith

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on…

— Fred Armisen

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

— Thomas Beecham