Group Composition Quotes

All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.

It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat

Black Eyed Peas is me, Will and apl.de.ap. That is who Black Eyed Peas is. We are the sole members.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

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 number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

I'm never going to put another girl in my group. Never!

Tears for Fears is me and Roland.

There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.

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