Art Alexakis Quotes

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

I know what it's like to go to a concert, wait to hear your favourite song - and then they don't play it!

I guess I could sit around and say, 'Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,' but it doesn't happen.

I especially like the songs Hurry Up and The Curse Of Castle Dragon, and I often include them in my live show.

To me, there's nothing worse than going to a concert and you're so looking forward to hearing your favorite song and they never play it. You're gutted.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play Creep. Get over it.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service.

Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.

A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

I've always been interested in being in other people's movies. I never get any offers.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

This supposed to be yall year? We aint get the memo.

It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.