Band Diversity Quotes

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

I love U.K. festivals because people go to watch as many bands as possible. They aren't just there to see their favourites; they'll be there all day long.

I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

PWR BTTM isn't the only queer rock band. We've been lucky to receive a platform. If you go on Bandcamp and search for 'queer rock,' you can find 150,000 bands that you could love more than PWR BTTM.

I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.

Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

Being from a big band is great because you can do other bands.

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.