I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
It's very common in Iceland, this music-making and artistic expression by non-professionals. The brass band tradition is not as big, but there are choirs everywhere. So that's something that is familiar to me.
My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Always from day one, we were the band on Warped Tour with a fog machine, and our backdrop had to be up - everyone thought we were the biggest idiots for that, total posers. But for us, we wanted to be over the top.
It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.
After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.
The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.
I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
Fergie's married. I'm married. A lot of the band members have families as well.
I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.