Audience Quote by Brian Fallon

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

— Justin Vernon

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band,…

— Ben Gibbard

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for…

— Penn Dayton Badgley

We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do…

— Tyler Joseph

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

— Alex Scally

That was a real debate for me whether to change my name, which I felt was a lie, or to make up a band…

— Michael Penn

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way…

— Nuno Bettencourt

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to act as…

— Nita Strauss

The decision to change the name meant we were getting serious, because we couldn't make a record if some other band had the same…

— Phil Lesh

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

— Suzanne Ciani

To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when…

— Tracey Thorn

People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans…

— Slash