Wayne Kramer Quotes

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

That's what Joe Don Rooney and I do. He plays guitar and I play bass - and there's no reason to call it a band if you're not gonna have the guys in the band playing on the records.

My mom and sisters liked to sing and we would jam at home very often. I would also jam a lot in college, where I formed a fusion band and played the keyboards.

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.

In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.'

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

I met Dylan on 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.' We buddied around for quite a while after that. We jammed together; he liked my Mexican songs.

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.