Being Quote by Philip Bailey

You write a song; you know what you want it to sound like. With a band like ours, it's more about the collective. It's…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I think basically, there are some bands and acts who feel the need to cultivate a persona or act a certain way or get…

— Dan Smith

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the…

— Gerry Beckley

We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner…

— Bent Saether

I think something for us that we're always interested in is how people interpret the music or the band for themselves, and that sort…

— Lizzy Plapinger

We really clicked with the label and they understood what we wanted to do as a band. They gave us a lot of freedom…

— Ryan Ross

We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we should take…

— Matthew Ramsey

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

— Ethan Coen

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

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

Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split…

— Gary Snyder

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

— Carrie Brownstein