John Rzeznik Quotes

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.

We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.

I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.

I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

I'm sad for younger bands that don't have a home that they know they can go to, like the twenty-five labels that used to be around that they know they can hang their hat and know that they'll give 'em three, four, five albums to develop.

There was no support system in Seattle for musicians.

The Dallas rap scene is growing, and hopefully we get to a level like Houston - everybody supporting each other, building each other up to be great.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of people in the music industry from Detroit. They're very kind when it comes to us stepping into their field or what they do and they're really willing to help out and help you get better at what you're trying to do.

I decided to move to Bergen because I like the music environment there.

Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.

We came from a small village and there is no music business there.

My dream is to take the Indian independent music scene to an international level. People like Alisha Chinai, Baba Sehgal and Daler Mehndi took it to a very high level. My ultimate target is to win a Grammy. I don't want to primarily be a Bollywood playback singer.

I think everyone's trying to come up together and bring up other bands along the way, and we've always been really blessed to have bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden take us under their wing and say nice things about us.

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.