Harry Shearer Quotes

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.

'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way.

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I would love to interview Michael McKean and his wife, who wrote the songs for 'A Mighty Wind,' which is my favorite Christopher Guest movie. I'm just a sucker for any funny guy that has a wife who is intelligent and that he collaborates with.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.