“I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.” WantWritingYearsWellsPlayTogetherSongRight NowBandGuitarStartingScriptsNinePianoSomedayMy SisterWriting SongsNine Years Author:Kaitlyn Dever
“When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.” RocksBandStartingLabelsProgressiveRock BandsStarting Out Author:Phil Ehart
“When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.” PeopleFirstsRocksMetsBandStartingCooksAwardsRock And RollDaveMtvAfghan Author:Denis Leary
“Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.” PeopleIfsLooksMistakeFailingBandStartingHorriblePainterIdiotNonprofitsHorrible Mistakes Author:Kathleen Hanna
“From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, theres going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.” PeopleHappensFunChallengesBandStartingActivismApplesBad AppleSocialising Author:Chris DeWolfe
“There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.” PeopleIfsWayGivingShouldYearsBelieveMeanWholeAbleTogetherYoungEvilGrowsStuffProcessBornMinutesBandMusicianFairsGuitarStartingWhole LifeHorribleUnfairNot FairTraction Author:Louis C. K.
“Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.” MadeJoyRecordsBandStartingMeat80s Author:John Hawkes
“At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want to be in a band to begin with were groups like Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Sepultura... everything that my dad would buy and bring home to me and my brother saying 'Hey, listen to this'.” WantMadeHomeGroupsBrotherListeningDadBandMy DadStartingHeyMy BrotherMetalsSlayerDeath Metal Author:Mitch Lucker
“When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.” LittlesStatesSchoolSongSoundMy OwnMorningListeningBandHigh SchoolStartingTeenagerEvery MorningMysticalEasternBugsDroppingAmazonTranceCelticZeppelinsTuningCassettesDropping OutBongs Author:Dave Grohl
“Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.” RememberMovingBandDown AndBillsStartingStarting Out Author:Alexis Taylor
“The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.” TryingIdeasSoundCasesBandStarting Author:Paul Banks
“Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.” KnowsWorldKindUsedLanguageNationsAttitudeChangedBandEuropeStartingPopsFranceGermanyBritainEmpiresPop Music Author:James Dean Bradfield
“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.” YearsFirstsArtSchoolFeltClassCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolProgramThirdsJazzStartingSeptemberFinishingManhattanMcdonaldsJustinUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon