Music making Quotes · Page 25

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

— Adam Jones

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

— Orson Welles

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

— Bella Thorne

LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.

— James Murphy

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

— Adam Rich

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

— Marc Ribot

To be a type of band that plays a type of music - I just see it as cosplay.

— Matty Healy

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

— Tulisa

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

— Bad Bunny

Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play…

— Ellis

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

— Don McLean

Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

— Brian Setzer

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put…

— Richard Simmons

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with…

— Bobby Vinton

The source is always me, but when the inspiration is an amazing idea or entity, it gives the process of music making…

— Amaal Mallik

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

— Henry Miller

The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did…

— Anonymous

With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for…

— JC Chasez

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't…

— Gene Simmons

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind…

— Dan Hicks

I love singing, 'I would leave if only I could find a reason,' because it just fits everything I'm doing. I would…

— Noah Kahan

Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to…

— Eliot Lewis

“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our…

— Vikram Seth

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at…

— Richard Branson

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.

— Toni Morrison

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

— Julian Casablancas

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

— Compay Segundo

Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"

— Henny Youngman

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

— Borns

We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar.

— Maybelle Carter

If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

— Hank Williams

I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.

— Melody Gardot

All musicians are potential band leaders.

— Thelonious Monk

If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

— Rick Nielsen

It's important to tour with bands that you get along with.

— Sonny Sandoval

“Always yearn to be an instrument for the Kingdom”

— Sunday Adelaja

The larger the band gets, the more people from the label get involved.

— Hope Sandoval

A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.

— Anthony Fantano

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

— Scotty Moore

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus