Anything Quote by Zacky Vengeance

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

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

— John Petrucci

It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part…

— Lauren Mayberry

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

We didn't want to just be a cover group, we wanted to do our music, to be a band. Once we were able to…

— Avi Kaplan

I think we weren't afraid of kind of pushing the boundaries in terms of how an album could collectively sound.

— Calum Hood

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

— Patrick Stump

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the…

— Bruce Springsteen

My idea for our band is to be influenced by something different for every album. So it's almost like making a new band with…

— Dylan Baldi