Music making Quotes · Page 30

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

— Elvis Presley

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

— Rob Halford

You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

— Adam Levine

I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.

— Nancy Wilson

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

— Alanis Morissette

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

— Brian Eno

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

— Carl Sandburg

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

— Jimmy Page

At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument…

— Martie Maguire

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about…

— Trilok Gurtu

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

— St. Vincent

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

— Marianne Faithfull

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps…

— Tony Levin

I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a…

— Syd

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the…

— Carla Bley

My brother was in high school and he had a garage band going, but no one would sing. They were covering a…

— Mitch Lucker

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind…

— Stevie Nicks

We are four sisters and when we joined the industry we were outsiders and we did not know anyone in the industry.…

— Neeti Mohan

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…

— Gary Burton

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued…

— Cillian Murphy

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier…

— Dave Grohl

Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think…

— John Corabi

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart…

— Alice Sebold

A lot of people don't know this, but I sing.

— Chi Chi DeVayne

Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.

— Corey Taylor

We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.

— Fab Moretti

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

— Jon Bon Jovi

We're like a middle-aged boy band on tour.

— Sal Vulcano

At every show, I pray with my band. It's a big thing.

— Jessie Reyez

I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

— Olly Murs

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

— Selena Gomez

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

— Stevie Wonder

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

— Christopher Owens

“When you find yourself dancing through life, be sure to tip the band.”

— Val Edward Simone

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Well I Guess I Won't Ever Be Singing Again..

— Anonymous

“That before living agent, now became the living instrument.”

— Herman Melville

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

— William James

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

— Billy Squier