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I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

— Benny Goodman

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✓Similar Perspectives

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

— Benmont Tench

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

— Johnny Colt

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

— Dave Grohl

Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.

— The Edge

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

— Steve Martin

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

— Chad Smith

Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.

— Melissa McCarthy

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

— Christopher Abbott

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

— Chuck Inglish

✗Opposing Perspectives

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

— Steven Van Zandt