Age life Quote by Mike McCready

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in…

— Grace Potter

Seven years as a band may seem like a long time, but we were teenagers when we started.

— Luke Hemmings

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

— Clea DuVall

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

— Bret Michaels

There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

— Mark Foster

I usually have three to four bands a year going at any given point.

— Mike Portnoy

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something…

— Greg Dulli

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

— Jerry Cantrell

It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from…

— Ryan Jarman

In a certain way, longevity is its own kind of success. While we would like to be in the position of those bands that…

— Ron Mael

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

— Ronan Keating

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any…

— Liam Gallagher