Paul Gilbert Quotes

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

When you're in this music thing, and you got friends involved in this, of course ya'll gonna have disagreements, and that's gon' be the outcome: we gon' fight each other.

You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities.

Working with friends isn't easy - the nature of an artistic project means it's about two strong visions colliding and a bit of mental wrestling.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

Sometimes, when you've got a couple of females on the cast, you'll have a diva, or you'll have arguments. I've been on shows where girls haven't quite got on.

You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.

I never play as well without these guys; the best I have ever been creatively has been with Pearl Jam.