Ashleigh Murray Quotes

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.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

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.

I don't particularly like working with girlbands because it's very hard to find a girlband that all get on.

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

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

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

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

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.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

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

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.

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

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.

Every band goes through breakups or splits.

It was fine at the start but there's always politics in any band. It just happened that I always got more vocals than everybody else, so in terms of people wanting their voice heard, that wasn't happening. It made people, very bitter.

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

We can't seem to put out an album without any drama.

Xscape never had a flop album as a group. The reason we broke up never had anything to do with sales.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.