Steve Martin Quotes

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

I've got guys in my band that have been there for about 35 years. They're great players, and we still enjoy doing the music.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

One of the things that I've noticed since I've been in the band is that, as players, Lars, James, and Kirk truly enjoy making music and performing.

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.