Gerry Beckley Quotes

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

Wu-Tang has only done, like, three rehearsals throughout our whole career.

When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well.

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't need a band anymore. We became a duo because of technology.

People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.

I'm all about showing people what I can really do in country music. Give me a mic and let me perform, and I'll prove it to you.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

I've got a band that I tour with, and they're not session musicians; they're my friends.

I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

We've been here since 1983 as a band.

We really do get along, I think because we have a bit of respect for each other being in a band. But, of course, we're brothers.

Being in a band, whether your female or male, is really hard.

I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.

I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.

It's a huge honour to be able to get on stage and jam with an icon.

In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

I play in a band called Hellyeah, and I really love doing it.

I knew of Queen, and I knew of Freddie, but I didn't know who the rest of the band were. I became friends with Freddie first; then I got to know the others.

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.