"We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play"
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"I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything."
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"We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more."
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"Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them."
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"Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time."
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"I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands."
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"Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction."
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"It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief."
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"Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there."
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"I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company."
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"I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.""
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"With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump."
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"Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us."
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"My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields."
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"The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles."
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"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."
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"By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band"
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"I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine."
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"Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members."
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"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered."
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