Music making Quotes · Page 40

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

— Rodney Atkins

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

— Trevor Dunn

Get people to sing together and they'll act together too.

— Pete Seeger

“Work is an instrument for fulfilling purpose”

— Sunday Adelaja

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

— Richard Thompson

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

— Jeremih

Anyone can make a record with instruments that work.

— Josh Freese

I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

— Rachel Stevens

There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.

— Kelela

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

— Amanda Seyfried

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.

— Jonathan Meiburg

I'm into a lot of music. I used to dabble in electric guitar, but not in a band or anything.

— Chace Crawford

There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that…

— Toby Keith

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

— John Petrucci

all which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and…

— e. e. cummings

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn…

— Meghan Trainor

Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music…

— Bob Dylan

We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a…

— Mark Hoppus

We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern…

— Andy Biersack

I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no…

— Tom Petty

“He begins to sing to her, very softly, almost not singing at all, just a whisper of a tune. He spins out…

— Laura Harrington

It was just another way for us to put out more material in a shorter amount of time. We don't want to…

— Medeski Martin And Wood

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and…

— Hilary Duff

Every band wants to play in every city. We all do.

— Nita Strauss

Those who wish to sing always find a song

— Swedish Proverb

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

— Joan Jett

“What we're about in this band, I hope...is that we put people before ideas.”

— Bono

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

— Bob Dylan

Music is in my genes. My entire family is into singing.

— Javed Ali

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

— Matt Cameron

We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

— Gary Rossington

“There is a true yearning to respond to the singing river and wise rock.”

— Maya Angelou

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

— Taylor Lautner

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

— Emmanuelle Beart

We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.

— John Flansburgh

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

— Stan Getz

I love to sing and never thought I'd be able to do it, and it happened for me.

— Kane Brown

“Don't waste your time or time will waste you - The Rock Band (Gods), Muse”

— Muse

I decided I want to sing more because that's been my passion since I was six.

— Darci Lynne Farmer