Music making Quotes · Page 36

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

— Leona Lewis

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

— Gavin Rossdale

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

— George Balanchine

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

— Adrian Belew

All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.

— Rumi

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

— Tony Visconti

“When singing Journey, you have to commit.”

— Matthew Bomer

I liked singing and just took a chance with it.

— Melanie Martinez

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

— Rodney Yee

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to…

— Ray Charles

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my…

— Terence Lewis

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

— Ritchie Blackmore

“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument…

— Anonymous

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot…

— Rob Halford

I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving…

— Danny Gokey

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good…

— Todd Rundgren

There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be…

— Paul Rodgers

You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span…

— Benji Madden

I think that's what propelled our band, the fact that we put on something that was visibly attractive to people and then…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band.…

— Borns

It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi…

— Melina Marchetta

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

— Art Alexakis

In a band everyone plays their part, and I look at production the same way.

— Frank Dukes

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

— Krist Novoselic

You know, we're a hard working band but we don't ever take it for granted.

— Maria Brink

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

— Rob Schwimmer

I'm about to sing the song for the future.

— Stephanie Mills

Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.

— Tim Kinsella

The identity of each band is what's important for me production-wise.

— Devin Townsend

This is the band I always wanted to be in.

— Phil Anselmo

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

— Salman Rushdie

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

— Micky Dolenz

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

— Jewel

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

— Simone de Beauvoir

With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.

— Eliot Sumner

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

— Lindsay Pearce