Music making Quotes · Page 11

I don't really enjoy singing lead.

— Martie Maguire

I write music. I'm in a band.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Singing has been part of my upbringing.

— Amrita Rao

I miss my singing career very much.

— Elvis Presley

I don't even attempt to sing.

— Joe Mauer

I wish I could sing like Nelly.

— Syd

I always wanted to tour with a band.

— Randy Rainbow

I don't like singing before noon.

— Sting

“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.”

— Christopher Smart

I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

— Christine McVie

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

— Anais Nin

I can still sing. If you are dead, you can't sing.

— Slim Whitman

We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.

— Trey Anastasio

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

— Donnie Iris

I was actually in a Take That tribute band.

— Rylan Clark-Neal

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

— Ringo Starr

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

— Clarence Clemons

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

— Wynton Marsalis

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love…

— Benji Madden

For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.

— Jani Lane

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is…

— Steve Vai

It's a really unique experience to have a band that's a 12 piece working together as one mind.

— Susan Tedeschi

I can't sing. So if I ever tell you that I'm singing tell me to stop!! You might go deaf..:P

— Anonymous

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of…

— Joachim-Ernst Berendt

When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player.…

— Bryce Dessner

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it…

— David Guetta

What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really…

— Stephen Malkmus

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I…

— Amos Oz

It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see.…

— Brody Armstrong

I started playing drums in multiple bands, then became a wedding drummer while studying drums in college, and after became a touring…

— G Flip

My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people…

— Doug Martsch

I wouldn't do go to another band.

— John Deacon

I sing and dance. That's my job.

— Dick Van Dyke

. . . And some people sing and dance.

— Roger Miller

We were a working man's boy band.

— Ronan Keating

I'm in a band. I'll do what I want.

— Keith Flint

I started when I was about 11, singing.

— Chris Brown

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

— Frank Sinatra

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

— Tom Waits