Band Commitment Quotes

The band will always be our number one, and I don't see it ever stopping. We love playing, so why would we want to stop?

'Hell Freezes Over' happened, and the Eagles decided to get back to work. We've toured pretty much since then, and I've been around the world a couple times. I had never really gotten any momentum going in a solo project during that period of time - Eagles was pretty much a full time job.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay focused.

I think everyone knows that I'm always the one that's the busiest in Maiden. When we're not touring or recording, I'm still doing loads of Maiden stuff - video editing and god knows what else - so I get a lot less downtime than the others.

We did everything we could to hold Pantera together and fought for it until the very end, and now that it's gone we're 100% focused on Damageplan.

I spent a good solid two years giving my all to Adrenaline Mob.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing to play in the band. I wanted the whole album to have vocals, but the record company didn't want that. Initially, the album was released solely in Japan.

If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band.

Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X and the other guys in the band spent their free time working on their other projects.

When you get in a band, you never consider the day it'll all just stop.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

Touring, it's really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that's why there's so few bands that do work, actually, 'cause there's so much that goes into it.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.

I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.

Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future for another band next to a band such as Nightwish, and with the ambition to become a mother, I will have to let Revamp go, which is a very sad decision.