Able Quote by Andrew Wyatt

Bands are like relationships, you know. You are kind of in a relationship with a bunch of people at one time, but this feels…

— Ali Koehler

To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.

— James Murphy

There's a misconception that, as you have success with a band for a long time, things get easier, and that's not necessarily true. It's…

— Lzzy Hale

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

— Duff McKagan

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

— Mike Rutherford

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing.

— Johan Hegg

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just…

— Alexis Taylor

Every band is different just because of the different combinations of people really are super unique to every band. The way you work together…

— Ali Koehler

I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting…

— David Berman

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

— Mike McCready

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

— Billy Corgan