Bands Quote by Mike McCready

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

— David Byrne

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

— Kenny Chesney

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

— Kip Winger

To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.

— Shawn Mendes

The thing that really stands out in my mind about Aerosmith is that we're still fucking together. Whatever we've done together and whatever we've…

— Aerosmith

Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like…

— Keren Woodward

Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith weren't polite. They were against the grain. And that's what we want our music to be: rude, aggressive... like real life.

— Jeff Hanneman

Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.

— Steven Tyler

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

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band…

— Bucky Pope

I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a…

— James Mercer