Music making Quotes · Page 34

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

— John Updike

I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.

— Floor Jansen

I like going around everywhere and singing to people.

— Mason Ramsey

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

— Mavis Staples

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

— James Young

~My favorite Person of my Favorite Band~

— She's_gone

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

— Bill Bruford

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the…

— Joan Armatrading

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

— Renee Fleming

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

— Hoda Kotb

Smooth mellow vibes that touch the soul I love listening to instrumentals I love real hiphop.

— Anonymous

“But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.”

— Jennifer Haigh

A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with…

— Tyler Posey

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

— Bobby McFerrin

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

— Keith Moon

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we…

— Bob Seger

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I…

— Miranda Hart

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I…

— Nils Frahm

That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious…

— Zacky Vengeance

People think because I'm crazy, I don't know anything. My dad played bass with Hector Lavoe, with Marc Anthony, with Ricky Martin,…

— Anuel AA

One thing I've always been proud of is that vicious dichotomy between the pretty controlled, angular playing of the band, and my…

— Carey Mercer

I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of…

— John Bush

One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in…

— Carrie Brownstein

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

— Dan Auerbach

Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

— Andy Gilbert

I've been having singing lessons whenever I can fit them in.

— Gemma Collins

This ain't no fucking sing-along so, girl, what you singing for?

— The Weeknd

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

— Jason Bonham

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

— Nick Cave

People don't necessarily know who I am. Some people think Bonobo is a band.

— Bonobo

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

— Neko Case

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

— Eddie Van Halen

Money, ego and drugs - that's what caused the demise of our band.

— Gina Schock

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

— James Galway

Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.

— Tobias Forge

I'm always going to sing like a country singer.

— CMAT

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

— Diplo

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

— Mick Jagger

I like that people are still trying to guess what kind of music I'm making.

— Kaytranada