I always recorded my vocals live with the band. Usually we'd just start from scratch. After we chose whatever song we decided… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is… — Jason C. Miller Copy Share Image
The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way… — Steve Berlin Copy Share Image
Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them… — Kyle Baker Copy Share Image
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band.… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
My friend and I were talking about the band Limp Wrist, and how cool that name is, so we started bouncing other… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
Because we take these huge long breaks, and then I just kind go, "Okay, fine, this is the way that I've chosen… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
I just implore local music fans to get out on a regular basis to support the local bands that you like. If… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go.… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
When you're looking at a sea of people there ready for a band, it is an unbelievable feeling. You've just got to… — Caleb Shomo Copy Share Image
The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the… — Dave Allen Copy Share Image
The image of the band has always been something that's evolved or changed with every record cycle that we've done. I think,… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
Some day we'll be a 35-year-old band, and then we'll be a 40-year-old band - I daresay that we will be a… — John Popper Copy Share Image
For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really… — Frankie Avalon Copy Share Image
I like that people feel like they can trust their own secrets with our band. It's kind of cool. Not only is… — All American Rejects Copy Share Image
I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
I remember thinking that Janis Joplin sang like Mae West talked. When I first heard the primal scream in 'Piece Of My… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with… — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the… — Carl Gardner Copy Share Image
