Band Life Quotes

I just want to play music with a band, live.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience of being in a band. There are good and bad aspects, and I got to taste some of both, and, well, it's not as much fun as what you see in 'A Hard Day's Night,' let me just say that.

I like to live for today and what's coming up tomorrow, and I love what we're doing with Hellyeah. And that's my focus, and that's my goal, man.

Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

After bands become successful, they always make that choice to do the record about how cool or how hard it is to be in a successful band.

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

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

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

Between 'St. Anger' and 'Death Magnetic,' we had, if I'm not mistaken, five kids born. And, of course, that would allow things to take time.

Every band runs its course.

If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.

Being a dad, and being in a rock band, it's harder than it looks. But we tried. And we try.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

Only we were in The Cranberries. Only we know what it was like being in that crazy whirlwind of fame. We have children and spouses and lives, but there is only one Cranberries.