I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but… — Duane Allman Copy Share Image
But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image
Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I love doing it. It's great. I love doing the sessions, 'cause you're kind of like in a different band every day.… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I always freak out when people ask me about my favorite bands or my five favorite records, I just can never do… — John Bush Copy Share Image
I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure… — Chris McCaughan Copy Share Image
There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I got a call from a group saying they'd like to have a roundtable with the reserve next door, and would I… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
When Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy and me were inducted to the Hall of Fame, it meant we were with the Beatles,… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time.… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
I was in a band called Episode Six with Roger Glover, which was more of a harmony band, really. At one gig,… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
We didn't have that big-label push. We weren't the kind of band that our label Warner Bros. Records was going to throw… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
Well, when the Raspberries ended in early 1975 suddenly I didn't have to write to anybody's strengths or weaknesses. I was completely… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way… — Dylan Baldi Copy Share Image
