Avi Kaplan Quotes

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

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

My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational.

Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

It's hard becoming a member of a girl group among so many competitors. You have to have luck and also need to work hard.

I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.

I think that no number of rehearsals can guarantee the outcome of a live show.

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.

I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.

When we toured with AC/DC, we always had to bring our A game. They really felt like our equals.

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

Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.

Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.

I work hard every week and when I come off the pitch after each game I like to think I've done everything possible to help my team.