Music making Quotes · Page 20

Oh, you wouldn't want to hear me sing.

— Orrin Hatch

Your favorite band sucks.

— Anonymous

Nothing unattested do I sing.

— Callimachus

If I could sing, it would be lovely.

— John Deacon

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

— Robert Browning

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.

— Sara Shepard

Success and singing is not synonymous.

— Morgan Neville

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

— Mustard

We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.

— Gord Downie

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

— Flea

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

— Alia Shawkat

I really want to evolve as a band with our sound.

— Calum Hood

I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

— Darius Rucker

We're never lumped in as being an L.A. band in any kind of context.

— Russell Mael

The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

— Billy Gibbons

Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the…

— Joan Osborne

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the…

— Stephen Stills

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band…

— Jennifer Garner

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is…

— Anna Camp

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

— Henry Handel Richardson

Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.

— V. Bozeman

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we…

— Eicca Toppinen

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play…

— Lydia Lunch

We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going…

— Steve Miller

I remember a festival we did in Denmark with the Clapton band where you suddenly realize it's an actual band - and…

— Derek Trucks

I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the…

— Chris Reifert

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever,…

— Josh Homme

What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around…

— Katy B

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something…

— Kathy Mattea

The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a…

— Stone Gossard

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

— Jessie J

I have too much work as a composer to concentrate on singing.

— Himesh Reshammiya

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

— Paul Weller

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

— Billy Ocean

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

— Taryn Manning

I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

— Linda Ronstadt

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

— Frankie Ballard

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

— Arvo Part

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

— Billie Eilish