I really try to find inspiration in all band's I've toured…

I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and…

— Albert Payson Terhune

I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies,…

— Guillermo del Toro

You know, we're a hard working band but we don't ever take it for granted.

— Maria Brink

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we…

— Mike Shinoda

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