Jerry Only Quotes

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.

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

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.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.

What people don't realize when they talk about our lineup changes is that the original Against Me! broke up in 2001. It never recorded a full-length record.

We have always been like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in that we have numerous lead singers.

I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.

The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.

Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

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

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.

Audioslave was something that I felt had become a career decision. It became three albums over a period of years touring with a specific group of people.