“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsKindHardCoursesIndividualRolesBandBigger Author:Stone Gossard
“In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.” WellsCertainRolesBandWork Out Author:Gavin Rossdale
“There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.” FeelsTryingPlayTogetherFeltRolesPeriodsBandNormalComfortableCompareSoloYour Best Friend Author:Gwen Stefani
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.” PeopleParentRolesFailingCoupleBandAchievementActressesExpectedRealizationPrizeCheerGraduatesAwkwardOscarsPointingPromotionNobelNobel PrizeWarrantsBrassFireworksBrass Bands Author:Frank Pittman
“Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.” SpiritCoursesReligiousCareersRolesCasesMilitaryIdentityBandArmyMovedTrainSurfaceScalesLocalsPostsRebellionTroopsSimilarityMonarchsMilitiaForgedCharismaticEthosCromwellAmerican IdentityCharles I Author:Garry Wills
“I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.” FeelsRolesBandFeministAmbassadorsWeird Things Author:Kathleen Hanna
“We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews. But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.” MenNeedsBigsUnderstandingAcceptingRolesLaughingKnowingTeamQuietBandMake SenseInterviewsDiverse Author:Robbie Merrill
“I can say is our point of reference - and I think that does make us different from some bands and similar to other bands too. But it's just that spirit - it's sort of like a punk spirit - but it's not punk meaning or as in like "I'm here and I'm going to get thrashy and bloody on-stage" - but, we're not going to listen to the rules and the roles already set in place. We just want to make music that is heartfelt and feels good and sounds good to our ears, and hopefully to many other's ears as well.” ThinkingWantFeelsWellsDoeI CanDifferentSpiritSoundRolesStageBandEarsFeel GoodHopefullyPunkBloodyHeartfelt Author:Theresa Wayman
“Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.” KnowsKindLittlesDreamSongRolesBandGuitarBonesTraditionalProducersRhythmPianoStringsSectionsToolboxRhythm SectionGuitar Strings Author:Mark Ronson