Music making Quotes · Page 27

We were just a high school band that loved music, you know?

— Steve Lukather

We're not an American band, or a European band. We're a Brazilian band.

— Max Cavalera

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

— Bruno Dumont

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

— John Marin

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

— Buddy Rich

It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle

— Zakk Wylde

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

— Jonas Blue

I am in a band that was born on the Internet.

— Lauren Mayberry

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on…

— Kathleen Hanna

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

— Chuck Berry

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

— Tituss Burgess

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was…

— John Dieterich

I can play piano by ear, and some guitar. But I definitely havent mastered either instrument. I do it for fun as…

— Ashley Tisdale

My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.

— Urmila Matondkar

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

— Gerald Massey

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

— Joshua Bell

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there,…

— Vanessa Morgan

To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta…

— Dimebag Darrell

It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a…

— Nicolas Godin

Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me…

— Maluma

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then…

— Christopher Young

Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but…

— Chris Robinson

Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone…

— David Vanian

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

— Daniel Johns

Keeping a band together is more work than anybody will ever tell you.

— Mike Campbell

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.

— David Draiman

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

— Iris Murdoch

I feel freedom in singing and performing.

— Dana Reeve

Those who wish to sing will always find a song.

— Anonymous

“Please do not have a band, as I do not care for music.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Work is an instrument through which you build yourself”

— Sunday Adelaja

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

— Greg Saunier

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

— Charles Bronson

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

— Tony Blair

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

— Beck

We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.

— Keren Woodward

I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.

— Taylor Momsen