A collection of memorable quotes to read when you're struggling with band relationships
There are probably quite a few people struggling with relationships in their bands.
After all, bands are made up of people with strong personalities.
Compatibility does matter.
But if you shut someone out, you’ll stop seeing their good qualities, too.
You can’t change other people, but you can change yourself.
Here are some quotes from musicians that can give you courage in times like these.
A collection of memorable quotes to read when you're struggling with band relationships
Freddie Mercury
Music is similar to women.
If you try to understand it, you can’t enjoy it.
Freddie Mercury
John Lennon
Discussion is the slowest means of communication.
Music is much better.
John Lennon
Maximum the Ryo-kun
It’s not that I want to be popular/sell well.
I want to meet as many people as possible who share the same “sensibility” and “sense of what hits the spot” as I do.
Maximum the Ryo-kun
Anthony Kiedis
We need to realize that ugliness and beauty coexist in this world.
Anthony Kiedis
Jimmy Page
How about we make a little money?
(When inviting Robert Plant)
Jimmy Page
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There’s an unspoken understanding that the person creating the original is the leader.
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kururi
Let's go on a journey.
to cry your heart out
Let’s have a laugh.
kururi
Sadao Watanabe
Easy things aren't interesting.
Sadao Watanabe
Yasutaka Nakata
I used to swap out different cables and chase better sound quality, but I realized I need to change myself rather than change the cables.
Yasutaka Nakata
Joe Strummer
We have no choice but to do it, yet there are far too many people who can’t grasp something so simple.
Joe Strummer
Shō Kiryuin
Back then, I thought “everyone was the enemy.”
I think the trauma from that time is the driving force behind my work.
Sho Kiryuin
Robert Plant
Some bands try to make an album based only on plans on paper, but we just can’t do that.
Music must be improvisational—that is, you have to catch what wells up from the heart and what springs from the mind before it hits the floor.
That's our way.
Robert Plant
Miles Davis
Learn, then forget.
Miles Davis
Lady Gaga
If you have a shadow, it’s proof that the light is shining on you.
Lady Gaga
Hiroto Kōmoto
I feel like my friends are more important than what's happening in some distant country at war.
Hiroto Kōmoto
Akihiro Miwa
If you spend all your time worrying about what others think, you’ll dilute yourself.
The lack of fulfillment comes from not seeing yourself clearly.
What matters is self-analysis and the establishment of the self.
Akihiro Miwa
Bob Marley
Some people feel the rain; others just get wet.
Bob Marley
Please read it again whenever it comes to mind.