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But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

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.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.