I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing…

— Hope Solo

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If…

— Charlie Hunter

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

— Sharon Jones

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

— Steve Miller

It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew…

— Nick Kroll

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some…

— Charles Kelley

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer…

— Adrian Smith

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

I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

— Isaac Brock

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.

— Jessy Schram

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed…

— John Scofield

Beck is obviously a consummate musician. He plays instruments, many instruments. He can make his own record without having a fleet of computer operators…

— Michael McDonald

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

— Bill Wyman

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

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow