"People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something."
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"There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics."
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"I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous."
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"The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe."
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"I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own."
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"I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles."
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"For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life."
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"I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly."
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"The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird."
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"I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it."
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"It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat."
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"Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers."
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"Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else."
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"From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers."
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"If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen."
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"When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig."
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"I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music."
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"What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect."
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"Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music."
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"So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?"
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