Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage – you have to run it every now and then! – Colin Salmon
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal’s sleaze like L.A.’s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they’d spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins. – Chuck Eddy
I’m not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice. – King Tuff
The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966. – Jeff Lynne
All your travelling is together, you eat together, you’re on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together. – Joan Armatrading
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years. – John Grogan
I’ve worked with a number of big bands, but there’s nothing in life like the Basie band. – Kurt Elling
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. – Lysander Spooner
Starting in the mid-’80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured. – John Hawkes
Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band. – Josh Klinghoffer
I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn’t afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing. – Layne Staley
I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs – Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band – we’d compete in festivals. – Juan Diego Florez