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"I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens."
"I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play."
"Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average."
"True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans."
"It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible."
"It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band."
"You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place."
"When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast."
"When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band."
"For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us."
"Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one."
"We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be."
"I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one."
"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."
"I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage."
"We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public."
"The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band."
"I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band."
"We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have."
"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal."
