Daniel Adair Quotes

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've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

I always wanted to be in bands.

I was a studio engineer out in L.A. for about six or seven years, and I played sideman for different people, and played in bar bands. I was an old man of 32 when I made my first album.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school.

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I was in Redwood for almost six years. It was an acoustic trio that I still think was the best band I've ever been a part of. We do have a double CD of the Redwood stuff available called 'Lost But Not Really.' I'm very proud of the old Redwood stuff.

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

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

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

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

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.

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

I have toured with the likes of Laxmikant-Pyarelal and performed in places like U.S., Canada, and Europe.