"It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline."
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"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."
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"I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat."
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"Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better."
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"You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did."
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"Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds."
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"We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway."
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"My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it's recorded."
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"At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience."
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"Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really."
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"It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before."
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"Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake."
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"I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix."
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"I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else."
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"Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works."
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"Yes, anyone can log onto your "anonymous" band's MySpace page and hear the music. So, in theory you have gotten your music in front of 5 billion people. The other thing is that something has to cause them to go to those bands MySpace page, and it's that reliance on taste makers or radio, that is still very much a part of how music is sold and marketed."
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"It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest."
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"Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting."
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"I was in two very horrible bands."
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"I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage."
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