Music making Quotes · Page 32

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

— Glenn Miller

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

— Van Morrison

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

— Lata Mangeshkar

“The mind is a fascinating instrument that can make or break you.”

— yvan Byeajee

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

— Phil Donahue

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

— Kiernan Shipka

All alone singing this song. Singing singing this song. So now I'm like noo.

— Bei Maejor

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

— Placido Domingo

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

— Matt Squire

The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over.

— Matty Healy

It's a very satisfying feeling for everyone involved into giving bands a new life - for me, the artists, and the audience.

— Veronica Vasicka

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

— Alessia Cara

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it…

— Phoebe Bridgers

...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !...

— John Sebastian

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's…

— Angus Young

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my…

— Billy Joel

When I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the…

— Steve Lukather

My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom,…

— Jay DeMarcus

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The…

— Derek Bailey

Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue…

— Ashleigh Murray

With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent,…

— Ed Sheeran

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way…

— Jarvis Cocker

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

— Anderson East

As an actor, your body is an instrument.

— Stacy Martin

It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

— Joe Williams

We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

— The Rev

“Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

— Mary Timony

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

— Sharon Jones

I can't sing, so... I don't know if I will be doing any musicals.

— Chris Massoglia

We've always been a band that questions things.

— Ed Kowalczyk

“You came to us a lump of clay, and we molded you into an instrument of Death.”

— Robin LaFevers

Nobody wants to hear me sing! I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it.

— Matt Letscher

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters.

— Jimmy Butler

All the words will bleed from me and I will sing no more

— The White Stripes

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

— Trevor Dunn

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

— Ben Hogan

We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

— Ad-Rock