Valerie Simpson Quotes

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

I'm glad I was never in a band.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.

For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to do is to play live. Whether it's an acoustic show, electric or whatever... if I shine at all, that's where it all really happens - it just took me a while to rediscover that.

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being on it.

What we do every day onstage, there's lights, there's lots of other musicians, there's an audience, there's a microphone and mic stands - layers of the onion we have to kind of hide behind.

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.

I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years.

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.