Music making Quotes · Page 118

Midnight memories, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Baby you and me Stumbling in the street Singing, singing, singing, singing Midnight memories, oh,…

— One Direction

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings."…

— Iggy Pop

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first…

— Suzi Quatro

I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I…

— James Dean Bradfield

They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of…

— Simon Cowell

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school…

— Michael J. Fox

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know…

— Travis Morrison

As an actor you have to keep working, were perishable fruit. Its an instrument and if you sit and wait too long…

— Cuba Gooding Jr

I like having a big band because it gives you more options. They can always not play and I can do the…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is…

— Brie Larson

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the…

— Billy Eckstine

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have…

— Dweezil Zappa

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it…

— George Eliot

At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all…

— Janet Fitch

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought…

— Matthew Ramsey

I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I…

— Billy Joel

I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing…

— Johnny Mathis

You don't pigeonhole yourself, people pigeonhole you. If the world is not at a place yet where it can just be like,…

— Beth Ditto

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a…

— Hozier

I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people…

— Lenny Kravitz

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a…

— Mick Fleetwood

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians…

— Branford Marsalis

The band is our whole lives and we are completely dedicated, but if you get too serious you'll have a lot of…

— Keren Woodward

Singing is connected to the body. So there's a - there's a depth in the body that's necessary to perform this kind…

— Dolora Zajick

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them…

— Nipsey Hussle

The thing about a band is, it's not so much how good the musicians are - it's the blend of personalities and…

— Ian Gillan

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with…

— David Byrne

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's…

— Rachel Stevens

“When you’re in a band, you spend the first four hundred thousand years of your career dragging around your own crap. Your…

— Maggie Stiefvater

We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have…

— Tyler Joseph

We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance…

— Yui Mizuno

I think the hardest part for musicians is what a wide gulf of time there is between when you decide to sober…

— Laura Jane Grace

Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that…

— Wendy Matthews

“The band responded by handing their instruments over to some fans during the encores, and leaving the stage. ‘That was the ultimate,’…

— Chris Bourke

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has…

— Earl Monroe

Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric,…

— Kimbra

Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom,…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's…

— Jarvis Cocker

“A brick could be used as a musical instrument. It doesn’t matter how bad it sounds, because I’ll be the band’s lead…

— Jarod Kintz