Music making Quotes · Page 101

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people…

— Adrian Younge

I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

— Zara Larsson

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an…

— Amanda Palmer

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the…

— John Gourley

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is…

— Ramin Djawadi

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and…

— Dwight Yoakam

“Grown-ups everywhere are learning the instrument to relieve stress, focus their minds – and for the sheer joy it brings.”

— Anonymous

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by…

— Jacques Barzun

In terms of content and instrumentation, I feel we have been extremely ambitious on every one of our albums going back to…

— Zacky Vengeance

We found ourselves becoming more serious about playing music than our friends were - or just more committed and had more meaningful…

— Mikal Cronin

“What was remarkable was that associating with a computer and electronics company was the best way for a rock band to seem…

— Walter Isaacson

I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about…

— Brett Dennen

My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an…

— Ian MacKaye

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My…

— Ronnie Hawkins

I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing…

— Dierks Bentley

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

— Carolyn Porco

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while…

— Gabriella Wilson

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

— Nuno Bettencourt

“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really?’ Ruth said, amazed, ‘How did that happen?’…

— Francine Rivers

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

— John Burnside

Singing has always been an important part of my life and I have always loved singing.

— Sara Khan

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

— India Arie

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

— Mohit Chauhan

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

— Grace Chatto

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

— Ad-Rock

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of…

— Charlie Heaton

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was…

— Richard Llewellyn

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

— Cass McCombs

I love bands like the Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths, and I'm working on my own music.

— Peyton List

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you…

— E.M. Forster

“You can’t become a famous garage band if you never perform outside your garage. That’s why my band plays in my driveway.”

— Jarod Kintz

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the…

— Nicola Roberts

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to…

— Nita Strauss

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

I was in higher secondary when I participated in 'Indian Idol.' I was also learning singing at the Suresh Wadekar Institute.

— Rahul Vaidya

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.

— Ian Gillan

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

— Nicholas Hoult