Music making Quote by Ted Leo

In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.

— Chris Stein

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get…

— Grace Potter

Well obviously, when you're in a band you have to diplomatic about things. Everybody wants to put in their two cents and while sometimes…

— Dino Cazares

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you…

— Panda Bear

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

— Alex Turner

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all…

— Glenn Frey

To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.

— James Murphy

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it…

— John Seagall

I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.

— Martin Gore

Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.

— Chris Cornell

We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do…

— Tyler Joseph

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing.

— Johan Hegg