Vivian Campbell Quotes

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

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a 'guitar hero' kept me away from all my friends who were guitar players. I thought it would be a lot more fun to play with them.

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.

Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in 'Sugar Money,' no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.

My friends always had bands, and we would play together.

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.

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.

One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.

I'm thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We'll call it something like 'Two Music Boys.'

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

I'm always with my band; they're my best friends.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

I never wanted to be a solo artist.

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've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been what Sonic Youth has been.

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

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a one-man thing: it was indeed a band. We wanted to give the impression of a family business, and we just liked the ring of Mumford & Sons.

Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.

I love playing with Slash, and the chemistry I have with the rest of the guys in his band is fantastic.

Me and Kehlani have music together, and I love her.