Brittany Howard Quotes

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.

We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we should take this kind of seriously, because people seem to like it.'

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.