Gord Downie Quotes

Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

It's just really cool to go to countries and play festivals for people who don't really know your band or don't ever get to see it. It's really nice.

The band that I always wanted to tour with was Pantera, and we got to tour with them twice.

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I'm just going to tour; that's the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.

I've been touring now since about '68.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.