Music making Quotes · Page 35

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

— Shenae Grimes

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

— Bryn Terfel

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

— Aldous Harding

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.

— D'Angelo

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

— Jesse L. Martin

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

— Madchen Amick

We're not the kind of band that writes very well on the road.

— Tony Kanal

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

— Max Martin

We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band…

— Charlotte Caffey

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

— Mark Heard

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.

— Rudy Vallee

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

— James Arthur

“Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song. Song of the bleeding throat!”

— Walt Whitman

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

— Michelle Dockery

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

— Anthony Kiedis

We Are Not Canceling Our October Tour, The Band Is Not Breaking Up, We Are All Alive.

— Joey Jordison

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you…

— Gina Schock

I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of…

— Morgan Llywelyn

We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover…

— Lars Ulrich

“Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’ the nose thus? FIRST MUSICIAN How, sir, how! CLOWN Are…

— William Shakespeare

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd…

— Annie Lennox

When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has…

— Alex Lifeson

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's…

— Dave Grohl

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing,…

— Ric Ocasek

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

Ghazal singing will come back with a bang.

— Javed Ali

Obviously nobody likes it when you walk offstage, including your band.

— Hope Sandoval

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

— Rebecca Hall

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't do much else to be honest.

— Graham Potter

You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

— Rob Halford

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

— Andrea Bocelli

I once got chased off stage by a heavy-metal band.

— Nish Kumar

“That which removes the egoism and 'my-ness' is the true instrument.”

— Dada Bhagwan

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

— Elliott Carter

We're not really band guys. We're shlumpy guys. We don't look like rock stars.

— Kyle Gass

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

— Gail Carson Levine

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

— Antoine Arnault

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

— Bobby McFerrin

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

— Taryn Manning

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

— Roger Daltrey