Band Quote by Edie Brickell

In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to the music.

— James Righton

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

— Norman Wisdom

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

— Robert Smith

When we first started it was just Russell and myself and a guitar player, Earle Mankey, and unlike virtually any other band in Los…

— Ron Mael

We used to really feel like the band was our family.

— Chris Frantz

One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for…

— Andy Biersack

Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like…

— Keren Woodward

I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really…

— Hayley Williams

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a…

— Anthony Kiedis

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then…

— Alan Lomax

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of…

— Greil Marcus

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and…

— Robbie Robertson