Band Quote by Luke Hemmings

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in…

— Roy Wood

We just knew that we wanted to be in a band. We wanted to be in a great live band and we wanted to…

— Jim Kerr

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was…

— Brian May

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

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play…

— Lamont Dozier

As a band, when we started, that was all we were good at. It wasn't 'we've got to be a guitar band'; if we…

— Luke Hemmings

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and…

— Thurston Moore

The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon used to…

— Paul Gilbert

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I…

— Thurston Moore

When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back…

— Isaac Hanson

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

— Isaac Hanson

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