Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'
Paul Stanley

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
Bob Geldof

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
Bob Geldof

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.
Martin Gore

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
Kathy Valentine

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
Jonathan Davis

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.
Jonathan King

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
Kirk Hammett

I love being in a band.
Jewel Kilcher

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.
Christine McVie

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
Christine McVie

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
Wynton Marsalis

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
Wynton Marsalis

I joined a band to hit things.
Larry Mullen

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.
Glenn Miller

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
Brian May

Everything is a battle with this band.
Kenny Hickey

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.
Chris Stein

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Adam Jones

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
Gerard Way