Around Quote by Jim Root

We want to be an important band to people for the right reasons. It's always been a goal.

— Luke Hemmings

In the long term, we want to become a band that everybody remembers.

— Jisoo

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay…

— Mike Portnoy

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be…

— Andrew Fletcher

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire…

— Lee Ranaldo

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all…

— Glenn Frey

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

— Billy Corgan

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having…

— Benji Madden

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed…

— Jeff Rosenstock

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

— Josh Silver

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over…

— Stone Gossard

Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have…

— Ben Gibbard