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They're playing groupie, so I'm playing rock star.
What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.
I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.
Jaz is their drummer. He's pretty damn good too. Hell, he's pretty damn good at everything he's ever tried. Creative little shit.
I don't think of myself as a singer really.
Yngve came in and said that John Bonham, the drummer in Led Zeppelin, was on one of the songs.
Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.
Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.
I never fronted, you can get it if you want it ...
Won't say I'm the best, but I'm not that far from it.
You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
What shitty band are you in?
If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.
The guy we want to get is the guy who did the Aerosmith album which is coming out in two days, and a Chili Peppers album, and a couple of Pearl Jam albums. We want to get someone that will sort of bring out the high energy aspect more than the dreaminess that was on the last album.
I'm the quiet bass player.
I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.
Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.
I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.
I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.
I'm a rock and roll singer.
David Johnson Chorus.
I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
I've got a crush on my backing singer.
I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.
I'm not a very typical singer.
My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.
I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.
I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
A good bassist determines the direction of any band.
Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.
As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.
I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.
Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitarist, he writes killer songs, he's worked with the best, toured the world and he is one handsome-looking chap. I know all of this because Billy told me.
I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.
I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.
What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.
I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.
I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.
I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.
I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.
Bass guitar is the engine of the band.
I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.
Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.
Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
I'm really a one-man band.
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!
I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.
It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready ... we'll just have to see.
If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
Josh is the guy in the band who's just so friendly and super, wanting to walk up to you and say, 'Hey, I'm Josh. I drum in this band, and I'm a big fan of you, and I really appreciate what you do.' Josh has all these great friends in the industry now.
I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.
My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.
There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
How do you know when a lead singer's knocking at your door?" he asked. "He can't find the key and doesn't know when to come in.
I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
The total person sings not just the vocal chords.
'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.
I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.
I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.
I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.
I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad in the back of a free paper seeking a guitarist, bassist, and drummer just looking to jam.
In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
I can do a gig without an instrument.
Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.
We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.
In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.
Phil is a real drummer's drummer.
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.
Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.
I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.