Band Quote by Sam McCandless

My least favorite thing about being in a band is photo shoots and video shoots. I like writing songs.

— Laura Jane Grace

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played.…

— Jonny Greenwood

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every…

— Ric Ocasek

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

— Syd

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

— Adam Jones

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

— John Petrucci

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

— Matt Berninger

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you…

— Jack White

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a…

— Tim Rutili

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

— Christopher Owens

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

— Avi Kaplan

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero