Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

— Chip Heath

“Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room”

— John Green

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

— Sharon Jones

Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X…

— Wayne Static

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

— John Mellencamp

I was playing surf music with my band when a girlfriend of mine who had come from Los Angeles took me to a James…

— Timothy B. Schmit

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play…

— Lamont Dozier

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

— Ikue Mori

Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is a bit…

— Nicholas Thorburn

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

— John Gourley

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

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

— Suzi Quatro

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

— Thomas Beecham

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

— Matisyahu

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a…

— Phoebe Robinson