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“I feel like I'm 15 and in my first garage band again, ... I don't know where that's coming from, but I love it. I find an even deeper exuberance in playing music and putting on a show. I'm just giddy about putting all this together and giving something to people that they haven't seen before.”
Keith Urban
“I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!”
Eric Carr
“A lot of rock bands had to step up to the plate and create a stronger message. That's the reason that hip-hop is so dominating, is that there's a true message behind what they're doing.”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“[The answer: d) All of the above. That is, the four-piece band fronted by Afro'd auteur Claudio Sanchez is a progressive rock band that delivers a grandiose, multipart sci-fi storyline with metallic force and the keen emotionalism of heart-on-sleeve emo acts. The major-label debut by the California band is the third in a continuing saga about a dystopian future in which the parents must kill their children to stamp out a plague. (The curious can check out the Sanchez-scripted comic books, available at www.coheedandcambria.com.) If that's not dark enough for you, there's a snazzy guillotine on the CD sleeve and song titles that include] Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial). ... Once Upon Your Dead Body.”
Claudio Sanchez
“When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,”
Mike Dirnt
“I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.”
Chick Corea
“We're always into that. It breaks down the wall between the band and the audience. It's a dream come true for the people who get onstage, but also for the people who watch it because they're seeing somebody who is one of their own. Sometimes it turns out great, sometimes it's a complete disaster. But even when it sounds bad, it's sometimes even better because there's a certain charm to it.”
“We want it to be an event rather than just a band up on stage playing. We wouldn't have it any other way. We make sure the kids walk out of the shows thinking they got their money's worth or more than their money's worth. We try to pack an arena show into a club.”
Zacky Vengeance
“When we first started the band here in LA, Jane’s Addiction was the band we looked up to. They came out at a time when there was a lot of glam rock and hair bands and they got put into that category, but they stood out because they were doing their own thing. We were kind of caught in the same kind of situation at another time: there were a lot of new-metal bands and we’d get put into that category even though we didn’t fit. It’s funny that now there’s bands like Mars Volta doing this prog-rock thing that’s kinda getting popular, people put us in that genre now. That may be closer to the truth, but I think Hypnotized is going to go further in terms of getting people to understand what we’re doing.”
Daron Malakian
“I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.”
Gerard Butler
