Music making Quotes · Page 100

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or…

— Kellin Quinn

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

— Kaci Brown

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.

— Ted Dwane

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music…

— Patrick Rothfuss

As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a…

— Chris de Burgh

I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home…

— Miles Teller

I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted.…

— Bonnie Tyler

“I had reached the level of expertise you would expect from someone who had played an instrument seriously for the last six…

— Cal Newport

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are…

— Garth Brooks

I played the drums. I basically started off in drum line. So it was just straight percussion. Then I got into the…

— Jrue Holiday

Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as…

— Fred Armisen

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels…

— Nigel Kennedy

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

— Florence Welch

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

— Isaac Hanson

I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and…

— Christian Fennesz

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

— Rick Nielsen

I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by…

— Amrita Rao

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal…

— Megan Thee Stallion

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

— Lars Ulrich

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand…

— Mats Wilander

I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.

— David Bryan

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along…

— Audra McDonald

Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.

— Robert Trujillo

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men…

— Sia

Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play…

— Jaimoe

Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life…

— Ashley Roberts

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

You know, I've always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.

— Gina Schock

I think for a band like us, we're all really close friends. We grew up and went to school together. We're not…

— Luke Hemmings

The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is…

— Julian Bream

To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort…

— Lisa Stansfield

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.

— Justin Chancellor

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

We've met people who have been in bands for years and they have said things to us like 'You guys are doing…

— Calum Hood

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

— Joe Perry

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

— Isaac Hanson