Bootsy Collins Quotes

I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.

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

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

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

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

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.

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it's the Paisley tour, the CMT tour, or a bar with 10 people in it, it is the most important show I've ever played in my life. I go to the ends of my imagination to do something that's unforgettable every night.

A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

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 was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

I love my regular job playing with Alice Cooper, I love doing my solo stuff, I love doing guest spots and guest tours. So I just love to play, and I'll play with anybody that'll have me, just about.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.