"What is a band? Back in the past a band used to be a group of vagabonds that would travel the globe spreading an ideal. This new ideal was the ideal of rebellion, that is how rock and roll was born. The kids of the 50's and 60's were sick of the shit that their parents were feeding them, and knew that they could do it better. They chose to separate themselves from their parents and move onward to spread their message to the hungry populace that knew they would be building something better than the people before them. Like birds leaving the nest, this rebellion was only the first step. From then on, music turned its back on rebellion. It turned more toward the music of emotional defeat. This music was a symptom of the emotional defeat that resounded in a country that was focused on a war that they didn't want to win, and struggling against causes that didn't have a solution. It was part of a mantra that kids in schools didn't have to work hard to get good grades, workers didn't have to work harder than the rest of the world, and the general lethargy that envelops a nation once it starts to feel the sting of a sliding GDP and spends all the money that it has in its treasury. The by product of the spirit of a culture, is the music it produces. Let's be honest, there is not much money in selling music anymore.
A new band needs to emerge that sweeps aside old practices, and puts to bed the old men who believe in selling music the traditional way. To sweep aside the notion that there is no answer. Music needs to become a message again. A message to revitalize the world: that it doesn't matter what race, creed, or nation you are from. It doesn't matter what circumstances you came from. You have a message inside of you. It isn't in our DNA, it's in our mind. We are evolving not at the speed of genetic evolution, we are now evolving at the speed of the evolution of ideas. You have the ability to change the way that people think, and you have the ability to give just one thing to the world that can change it forever: an idea. Music was meant to be a divinely inspired idea. The perfect way to translate an emotional thought into another person.
Would be musicians who want to take an honest swing at music need to understand, it is not one hour of practice a week that makes you great. Its not writing one song that makes you great. Its not tearing people down on a blog or message board that makes you great. It's the sheer amount of how much you work and create that makes you great. Because criticism is the argument of the insecure, and is not meant for other people. Criticism is meant for your self. If someone criticizes you, imagine how much they must hate themselves to not be directing that criticism inward in a positive nature, towards improving their own craft. We must not let the critics overcome our sense of purpose. Without the creators, there would be no such thing as a critic.
We can always go one of two ways. To believe that things are going to stay the same and get worse, or to believe that things are going to get better with every new thing we create. Every day you have to ask yourself that question. You can either watch people run by, or you can run towards the light. If you continue to sit back and watch, one day you will be left behind. If you are fortunate enough to be in the lead, it will only be for a little while. Someone will take your place someday, so treat others with that in mind and they will carry you. We as humans have a duty to continue to run the race, we can never stop. Because once we stop, we may all disappear from this great civilization. We are a band because we believe in this message, this quiet drive that gives us the strength to deliver music to you in times of hardship. Our rebellion is against those who watch us drive by. In the next few months we will all listen to new quietdrive songs that we can all run the race to."
Again, another reason why Quietdrive never ceases to amaze and inspire me. I absolutely love these boys, and can't wait until their new album release and east coast tour dates :)
Quietdrive in One Night Stand Tour of November 2008
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