Band Quote by James Righton

With the first album, we felt people didn't really understand our band.

— Chad Gilbert

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we…

— Mike Shinoda

Vocally and stylistically, we'd have different kinds of songs come on the radio, and people didn't realize it was the same band. A lot…

— Steve Lukather

We were just a high school band that loved music, you know?

— Steve Lukather

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.

— Ian Gillan

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public's band.

— Nicola Roberts

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

— Bruce Springsteen

People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that…

— Ed Robertson

When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't seem like…

— Luke Hemmings

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk.…

— Joey Ramone