I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on.…

— Suzi Quatro

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and…

— Brian McKnight

I don't want to be part of a band unless it's fun.

— Charlotte Caffey

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