Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.
I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.
I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.
So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.
I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.
I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.
For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.
You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.
I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.
I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the album.
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.
I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.
Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.
We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.
I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.