Band Quote by Jim Root

With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers.…

— Jim Root

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

— Tyler Hilton

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

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

— Jonathan King

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

— John Hawkes

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.

— Steve Porcaro

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

— Joey Jordison

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

— Eric Carmen

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

— Sebastian Bach

The inspiration for our vocal harmonies was sort of Appalachian. It's sort of at weird intervals, and it almost has an Appalachian kind of…

— Kate Pierson

I remember in the days when we started, when we first went on the road, we went to Berkeley and played with Exodus. We…

— Jeff Hanneman

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

— Keren Woodward