Band Quote by Bret Michaels

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

— Mike McCready

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's…

— Kim Gordon

Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was…

— Bret Michaels

I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

— Joe Perry

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

— Clea DuVall

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

— Ronan Keating

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in…

— Grace Potter

I think, a lot of times, bands will break up because their goal is commercial success, and most bands aren't going to get that:…

— Davey Havok

We've been a band since 1993. I don't think we're ever gonna be broken up.

— Shavo Odadjian

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something…

— Greg Dulli

For any band to stay together for 10 years proves that something is correct with the chemistry involved in all four of us.

— Tony Kanal

We're still evolving as a band. I think that's really important for a band to do, especially after being around for so many years.

— Jim Root