Vinnie Paul Quotes

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.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

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.

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

The Seekers have done most things that you'd want to do and when we broke up in the '60s it was partly because we sort of felt we'd done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.

People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'

The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

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.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

No, I will never do another Rainbow album. I'll never ever do that again. I want no part in doing it; I want no part in doing anything with Ritchie at all. I respect him. He's a genius. He was a great part of my life, but I don't need to go through that hell.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.