Jerry Only Quotes

Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.

I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting to me. People whose bands start out like that, when they break up it's always terrible.

The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as 'The Beach Boys.' With it, I've felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.

The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

No one will ever fill Scott's shoes and I'm not trying to - he's a legend. But these songs deserve to be performed and people want to hear them. I'm just honored that the guys chose me to help them continue to build this band's legacy.

We've been here since 1983 as a band.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

The Isley Brothers, there's a group that stays together because they're a family band.

A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.

We've got the pretty-boy lead singer and the fat, dumpy drummer, and I'm the zany guitarist. Sure, we've played up the image at times. But it's the music that matters most.

Chad Smith is a member of Chickenfoot, and that's that.