Music making Quotes · Page 24

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

— Anonymous

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

— Bobby McFerrin

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

— Vittorio Grigolo

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

— Gabby Barrett

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

— Garrison Keillor

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

— Paul McCartney

I fell in love with singing and I love idolizing artists.

— Ruel

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

— Trombone Shorty

It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it,…

— Doug Martsch

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

— Steve Lacy

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time…

— Dave Grohl

We want to sound like a band you can't clone or even categorize. We like to throw everyone off.

— Shavo Odadjian

As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being…

— Gareth Gates

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of…

— Renee Fleming

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so…

— Ken Hensley

I played with local bands and ended up touring with Scissor Sisters, Mylo, Alphabeat, and Calvin Harris. That somehow changed into DJ'ing.

— Kristian Nairn

I was more of a melodic player. Angus was more into the rock world. Straightaway, I said this is how we should…

— Malcolm Young

I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a…

— Katie Stelmanis

When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have…

— Dave Matthews

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned…

— Oliver Sacks

I started performing with my dad's band when I was quite young and participated in singing competitions as well. By the time…

— Jonita Gandhi

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out,…

— Tim Minchin

I was listening to this Ngozi Family record, 45,000 Volts, and it's mostly this guy singing, and then for the choruses, he's…

— Robin Pecknold

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos.…

— Bruce Springsteen

In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

— Hakuin Ekaku

“You'll never harmonize if everyone is singing the same note.”

— L.B. Wilson

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

— Jacob Collier

My band and I are brothers. Nothing can break us. With it 'till the end.

— Jack Barakat

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

— Ambrose Bierce

Sing will all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind

— Pocahontas

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

— Satyajit Ray

I've been singing since I was a little girl.

— Colleen Ballinger

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

— Peter Frampton

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

— Arto Lindsay

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

— Nina Hagen

I live in Chicago, and I play in a band there.

— Joe Keery

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

— Anatoly Chubais

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

My whole goal is to be honest and sincere with the music I'm making.

— Anderson East

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

— Anonymous