Pat Smear Quotes

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

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

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

It's kind of cool being at a poker table with the guys from NOFX, a guy from Bad Religion, a guy from Lagwagon, all these cool punk bands you've always dug.

Warped Tour is completely in a league of its own. It's this crazy cross between a real, full tour and a festival.

I have the luxury of having the choice to perform and go up on stage every night.

Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.

Performing is fine.

It's always been my goal to have backing singers.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

I enjoy singing with a band playing behind me.

My main focus now is playing the guitar. I'm not really like, dancing on stage anymore.

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at it pretty quick, and I learned my songs and how to play them.

I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.

We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

A rock band with vocals is what I always wanted to be a part of; in fact, it feels very natural for me.

In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy's Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio - we were actually pretty good for our age.