Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had a band and our own radio show, and that's what was popular.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.