"There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing."
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"I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft."
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"Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band."
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"Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!"
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"If what you want to do is make artwork for bands, you have to love doing it because there is almost no money in it. In order to start doing it, you just have to put yourself out there, work for bands you love and for as little as possible to start, if not free, that's what I did for years."
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"It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day."
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"Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us."
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"I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman."
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"When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play.""
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"Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over."
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"When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band."
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"Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!"
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"I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes."
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"Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry."
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"You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation."
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"You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on."
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"A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like."
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"Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock."
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"Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn."
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"Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined."
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