Syd Quotes

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.

I didn't always enjoy playing music with the Trees.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!

I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

I can just be one of those guys that used in the mix, playing 4 or 5 if we play smaller.

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.

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

I enjoy singing with a band playing behind me.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

There is definitely an art to the dance that is being in a band.

The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.