"When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos."

First, Play, School, Trying

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos."

Exlpore more First quotes

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

First, Meaning, Old, Principles

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

George Shearing, British Musician

First,

"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."

Fawn Hall, American Celebrity

First, Rights

"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."

David Seabury, American Psychologist

First, Will

"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."

David Lee Roth, American Musician

First, Television, Wind

"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."

Joey Skaggs, American Celebrity

First, Intentions, Media, News

"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."

Roy Bean, American Judge

First,

"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"

Mary Lou Williams, American Musician

First,

"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."

Richard Strauss, German Composer

First, May

"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."

Anthony J. D'Angelo, American Author

First,

Explore more quotes by Wayne Kramer

"Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do."

Music

"When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people."

People

"If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work."

Work

"As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs."

Music

"It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist."

Class

"We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too."

Today

"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."

Cause

"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame."

End

"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."

Life

"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future."

Music