Music making Quotes · Page 26

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

— John Oates

I grew up dancing and singing and I just love everything about that.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

I'm a singer, not a talker I took singing lessons, not talking lessons.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

— Alex Kapranos

I'm bored of just being in a band and touring.

— Hunx

We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.

— Winston Marshall

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

— David Thibodeau

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

— Javed Ali

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

— Nuno Bettencourt

The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.

— Devin Townsend

I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.

— Colin Marston

You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.

— James Acaster

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

— Julian Casablancas

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

— Tommy Lee

I Am Setting The Record Straight, If You Don't Hear It From One Of Us In This Band Then It Is Bullshit..

— Joey Jordison

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I…

— Dave Pirner

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of…

— James Taylor

“Boy bands are sent by God to aid women of all ages in their quest to avoid reality, but specifically to trick…

— Penny Reid

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real…

— Ann Powers

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions…

— M. Ward

“A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They…

— Pat Conroy

I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager. I have an…

— Anoushka Shankar

We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of…

— Ed Kowalczyk

“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the…

— Raymond Chandler

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

— Tammin Sursok

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

— Matt Tong

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

— Trent Reznor

We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.

— John Rzeznik

I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun.

— Jon Pardi

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

— Miles Teller

The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

— Nick Mason

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

— Max Tundra

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

— Chuck Inglish

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

— Deep Roy

And he just kept on singing. Singing clear and strong.

— Roberta Flack

I should have been a rock star. But I can't sing.

— Gia Carangi

A dancer dances.A writer writes. A singer sings. What do you do? Know thyself.

— Tassel Daley

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

— Edward Norton

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

— Winston Marshall

I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.

— Mavis Staples