Danger Mouse Quotes

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a freight train on drums and such a cool individual as a man that it makes us better as a band, and we are now complete with him.

If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you want somebody you enjoy being around. You don't want an annoying guy .

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.

There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.

When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

You don't have to be a great drummer to be the most important guy in the band.

Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.

I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't heard a lot of their records, but I know that they're cool. I know that the people who listen to them are really awesome and I like those people, so I know that I would like the band, I just don't own their records.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.