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"The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!"
"Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!"
"the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less"
"It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin."
"So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!"
"I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead."
"But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band."
"When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands."
"No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band."
"When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant"
"The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all."
"Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar."
"There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know."
"A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds."
"I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath."
"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
"I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming."
"It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band."
"There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high"
"I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove were as great as all the rest of the bands -old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it."
