Music making Quotes · Page 39

I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.

— Trombone Shorty

I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I probably learned most of my craft from singing to the radio.

— Timothy B. Schmit

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

— Logan Lerman

We started our band in a garage when we were 15.

— Benji Madden

“How can you not hear the song my heart sings, Blue Eyes?”

— Catherine Anderson

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

— David Toop

I never doubted that singing was what I was meant to do.

— Sarah Harding

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

— Gregory Colbert

I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my…

— Chris Daughtry

I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and…

— Andy Gill

Music is how I unwind. I love going to see bands or DJs at a festival or a dive bar. My taste…

— Daniel Ricciardo

Playing out in a band all the time at least you made money. Even if you have a hit song, it takes…

— J. J. Cale

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his…

— Anthony Fantano

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I…

— Maureen McGovern

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who…

— Roddy Woomble

My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what…

— Julian Barratt

I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out…

— John Congleton

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult…

— Alan Palomo

Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that…

— Keith Getty

I grew up listening to a lot of hiphop music and R'n'B. Bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Big…

— Taboo

The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“You want to fuck the singer, but you would suck on any of them. A rim job, a piss shower, wouldn't matter.…

— Amanda Boyden

When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music...…

— Mick Hucknall

I'm more than just the face at the front of a band.

— Lapsley

No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.

— Christian Fennesz

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

— Cassandra Clare

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.

— Graham Coxon

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

— Mick Ralphs

“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”

— André Aciman

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

— Randy Travis

I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.

— David Milch

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

— Conrad Aiken

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

It's so different playing with a band as opposed to singing an anthem.

— Susan Tedeschi

To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

— Steve Martin

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

— Bjork

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

— Jack Dempsey

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

— Simon Le Bon

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

— Vivian Campbell