Billy Sherwood Quotes

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.

An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.

I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.

If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you want somebody you enjoy being around. You don't want an annoying guy .

Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew perfectly well our ranges and which kind of voice they wanted on a specific song. And sometimes, I envied the choice of Agnetha, I must admit.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists.

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.