Denny Laine Quotes

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience of being in a band. There are good and bad aspects, and I got to taste some of both, and, well, it's not as much fun as what you see in 'A Hard Day's Night,' let me just say that.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

One of the biggest misconceptions was, after I left Dream Theater, I went off and did, like, five different bands and side projects. Everyone was like, 'We thought you wanted a break.' And it was like, well, I didn't want a break from making music; I just needed a break from the Dream Theater camp.

Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band.

When you get in a band, you never consider the day it'll all just stop.

Being in a band can be really toxic to being in a relationship, considering all the touring and everything. Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

If we weren't in this band, some of us wouldn't be playing at all. You have tiffs with someone when he has smelly feet in the touring van, but we all respect each other as friends first.

I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.

Being in a band, whether your female or male, is really hard.

We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

I got really sick of playing just, like, 'Bop-bop-bop-bada-bop-bop-bada-rapa-pah.' Just playing that 190-beats-per-minute punk-rock songs, I didn't feel it anymore. And I always loved melody - when you looked back on those early records, there's always a hook buried in there somewhere.

I love being on the road and I love my band, but also need to be with my kids more and I need to be creating more.

You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.

My band got signed in high school when I was 16, and we all dropped out of high school and went on tour. Then I quit the band because I was the manager, and I was doing everything, so I went solo.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.