Mike McCready Quotes

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Andy Rourke and I had been playing together from 14 or 15, and we had a very great musical chemistry. Andy's just a very respected and unusual musician.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

Andy Timmons is someone I've jammed with many times over the years, and we always have a great chemistry when playing together.

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

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

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

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.

I love Neil Young. And he loves me! We have a great relationship.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.

Will I do another tour with Paul? Well, that's quite do-able. When we get together, with his guitar, it's a delight to both of our ears. A little bubble comes over us, and it seems effortless. We blend.

We were friends for a year before we started playing music together. We both think it's pretty important. Tyler's my friend before he's a guy in my band, and when we talk to each other about things, it comes from a friend standpoint, not just a business standpoint.

I feel it's quite important to have a band but what's more vital is to be friends with the members of the band. If there's not a bond there, you won't be able to jam. Apart from that, it's also vital to have the same vibe.

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