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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

— Eric Clapton

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

— Alex Turner

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

— Adrian Smith

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

— Grimes

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

— Roger Andrew Taylor

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

— Pete Wentz

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.

— Thurston Moore

I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

— Anton Corbijn

You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

— Greg Ginn

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

— Brian Eno

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

— Johnny Colt