Michael Hutchence Quotes

When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.

We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

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.

Well, my musicians are my friends.

Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.'

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL's music. And I love him - we're blood brothers at this point. We've been through the fire together. I know no finer person.

You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.