Progressive Rock Bands

"We've been getting more popular, sure, but we haven't grown as fast as some other bands. I think that's because artistically we make a specific effort not to become caricatures or regurgitate what we do."

"They might egg us on to push the outer walls of a song further and further. They'll say, 'Yeah, do it, we want you to do something new.' Well, we want to see something new, too.... More magic happens when you do things like that than when one person makes the decisions."

"It comes back to their personal lives. Everybody has a different agenda with their families, whether it’s getting married or having a kid or a kid’s birthday or being home for Halloween trick or treating. That’s the hardest thing to balance out. Somebody wants to take family vacation in January, somebody wants to go in April and somebody wants May. It’s balancing five guys personal lives with their work lives and making it fair for all of us. I think I’m lucky, though, because the individual guys in moe. realize that there’s four other people who depend on them. As well as the seven, eight, nine other people they employ."

"I think it sucks that Phish quit. I think because of their size and success they brought new people continuously into the scene who then checked out other bands. Overall, I think it’s harder to pick up fans now that Phish is gone."

"All gains. We got to play in front of a crowd that enjoys live music. We got to be affiliated with legends of the jamband scene. We got pretty good catering. We got exposure to a lot of fans who have heard about moe. but had never seen them. And on top of that, I want to say that the Allman Brothers Band and family treated moe. great. They treated us better than an opening act."

"Not finishing college. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. And that goes for the band too."

"Halloween at the Aladdin Theatre, Jim Loughlin dressed as Darth Vader, with an oversized helmet singing AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"."

"As we learn more about autism, and as our kids grow older, we are finding that we as parents and our children need that same high quality and progressive resource beyond the Promise Program's objective. The Kelberman Center is fulfilling that need."

"Every year is a little bit better than the last. It would be great to do something groundbreaking that redirects the evolution of popular music before this is all over."

"It helps having five really different musicians. We push and pull the band in different directions, and that’s what keeps it interesting. It can be very tricky working in the confines of a five-person democratic group when you’re trying to be creative together. Everybody has equal input, yet you don’t want the song to sound like five different voices."

"I would be floored and amazed if we ever win a Grammy award or end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But if we can make some year-end Top Ten lists and continue to play music that makes people happy, that's more than I ever hoped for as a musician."

"Our own individual musical tastes evolved a great deal, and the 'moe. sound' has become more refined without sacrificing its defining improvisations. There's something to be said for good live music where people take chances and go for it."

"Pretty soon, we were playing four nights a week, and the band had become our lives, and we needed to make the choice to do it full time. Then came that uncomfortable call to my folks to tell them I was quitting my job."

"Al Schnier, Genres Unlimited by Marc Shapiro of Diamondbackonline.com"

"You can’t really preemptively decide the course of any jam. You need to let the music determine where you’re going."

"It comes down to being comfortable enough onstage, and confident enough with our instruments, for our personality to come through."

"[moe.] is an amalgamation of a wide variety of the history of rock, all regurgitated and recycled through the eyes, ears, hands, whatever of the guys in our band and all of that with a sense of adventure, a sense of humor, also a constant desire to push the envelope. All in this arena of taking chances, improvising live, and making things up on the spot."

"Sometimes it might be difficult to be in the lobby of your hotel in your underwear without your glasses on. It also might be difficult to tell the women behind the counter that you think you're in the band moe., and you don't know where your room is. - Al on October, 5, 1996."

"Frank Zappa was the rock guy who plastered classical, highbrow, blues, lowbrow, reggae and gawd knows what else into a style uniquely his own. Beside the juxtaposition of many diverse, seemingly unrelated styles, he possessed a strongly developed compositional 'signature' consisting of heretofore unimagined rhythms and melodies typically performed at knuckle busting, blowtorch-to-the-head speed. His guitar tone and style are immediately recognizable- honking, stinking, loud and delicate with flourishing, ornate, melodic, knuckle-dragging inspiration in every note."

"We thought we were done [with the new 2006 album], but we're not. We're going back into the studio to adjust a few things, and we'll probably end up replacing a couple songs that we were originally going to put on there ... Sometimes it's hard to get enough time [between the album and touring]. What we really need is a second band."

"Snow Dog is victorious The land of the Overworld is saved again"

"The battle's over and the dust is clearing Disciples of the Snow Dog sound the knell Rejoicing echoes as the dawn is nearing By-Tor, in defeat, retreats to Hell."

"Well I get up at 7 yeah and I go to work at 9 I got no time for living I'm working all the time It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me, they call me the workin' man. I get home at five o'clock and I take a sip out an ice cold beer always seem to be wondering why there's nothing going on around here It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me, they call me the workin' man."

"Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"

"Heavy on lyrical conception, the legendary trio of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart offered various complex pieces and themes often involving science fiction fantasy. Though a guitar-driven band at heart, Peart was widely considered one of the great drummers of all time. As a collective, Rush's musical genius is hard to beat."

"The future disappears into memory With only a moment between. Forever dwells in that moment."

"The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect."

"Thank your stars you're not that way Turn your back and walk away Don't even pause and ask them why Turn around and say goodbye."

"All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary Of a miracle too good to be true All I know is that sometimes the truth is contrary Everything in life you thought you knew All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary 'Cause sometimes the target is you."

"All my illusions Projected on her The ideal, that I wanted to see."

"Life goes from bad to worse I still choose to live Find a measure of love and laughter And another measure to give."

"Until our final breath The joy and pain that we receive Must be what we deserve I was brought up to believe."

"In a world where I feel so small I can't stop thinking big."

"Now it's come to this Like we're back in the Dark Ages From the Middle East to the Middle West It's a plague that resists all science"

"Sometimes the fortress is too strong Or the love is too weak What should have been our armor Becomes a sharp and angry sword"

"One day I feel I'm on top of the world And the next it's falling in on me I can get back on I can get back home One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel, And the next it's rolling over me."

"Dream - Temporary madness Dream - A voice in the wilderness Dream - Unconscious revelations The morning says, the answer is yes."

"All this time we're burning like bonfires in the dark A billion other blazes are shooting off their sparks Every spark a drifting ember of desire To fall upon the earth and spark another fire."

"A certain amount of resistance To the forces of the light and love A certain measure of tolerance A willingness to rise above."

"I can learn to resist Anything but frustration I can learn to persist With anything but aiming low."

"I've got celestial mechanics To synchronize my stars Seasonal migrations -- daily variations World of the unlikely and bizarre."

"You and I, we are pressed into these solitudes Color and culture, language and race Just variations on a theme Islands in a much larger stream."

"There is a fine line Between love and illusion."

"Young enough not to care too much About the way things used to be I'm young enough to remember the future -- The past has no claim on me."

"A secret face -- a touch of grace A man must learn to give a little space A peaceful state -- a submissive trait A man must learn to gently dominate."

"All around this great big world All the crap we had to take Bombs and basement fallout shelters All our lives at stake."

"Well, I was only a kid, cruising around in a trance Prisoner of fate, victim of circumstance I was lined up for glory, but the tickets sold out in advance The way the big wheel spins."

"Why are we here? Because we're here Roll the bones, roll the bones Why does it happen? Because it happens Roll the bones, roll the bones."

"We go out in the world and take our chances Fate is just the weight of circumstances That's the way that lady luck dances Roll the bones."

"Take heart from earth and weather the brightness of new birth Take heart from the harvest shave the harvest from the earth."