Tobias Forge Quotes

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

We were both dabbling with music but no, I persuaded George, railroaded him really into forming a band. I think we both had the belief that we would make it. That was the central pillar around everything else.

I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when I got interested in going on tour around that time.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.

I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.

The last time I put out 'Raw,' that boosted me up in the underground to one of the top underground artists who was making moves and touring around the world.

We built up a hardcore following, but we were really still semipro, gigging over long weekends and the like. So after EMI signed us, we packed in the day jobs because we had to make an album.

I had a great run with Ratt.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.