Alan Vega Quotes

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

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.

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.

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.

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.

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

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

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

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.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

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

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

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.

When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.

There was something about the chemistry of the band and we would feed off each other. It was a gang of girls unleashed.

I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

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

In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.