Jim Capaldi Quotes

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.

You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.

It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

I knew the guys in the Allman Brothers way back in the day, before they were famous.

We started our band in a garage when we were 15.

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who took it all really seriously.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the band has because we have spent now all this time together that I think that's sort of what we returning to. And whenever we get to play together, it still sort of returns to that little shitty rehearsal space. So that's good.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.