Music making Quotes · Page 43

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

— Alan Villiers

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

— Gustav Holst

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

— Robin Trower

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

— Anonymous

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

— Carrie Brownstein

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.

— Martin Freeman

Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life.

— GRiZ

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

— David Johansen

I don't even like to sing in front of my own band members so it's easier for me if they send me…

— Hope Sandoval

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

— Joe Bonamassa

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like…

— Otis Rush

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

— Adrian Younge

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

— Neil Young

“Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.”

— Flannery O'Connor

One of the things that I've noticed since I've been in the band is that, as players, Lars, James, and Kirk truly…

— Robert Trujillo

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until…

— Kathryn Hulme

“I sing to use the Waiting My bonnet but to tie, And close the door unto my house No more to do…

— Emily Dickinson

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the…

— Greil Marcus

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

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

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so…

— Zac Efron

Me and my bandmate having known each other and worked together for so long, the process between us is kind of effortless.…

— Jonathan Rado

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

— Linda Lavin

A band can be so much more than just a way to play songs.

— Genesis P-Orridge

We're known as a touring band, not a singles band.

— Rick Nielsen

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

— Tiffany Darwish

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

— John Philip Sousa

My music-making process is pretty fun and easy.

— Kane Brown

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

— Dolly Parton

Apart from acting, I love singing as well.

— Meghana Raj

Obviously, like, we'll always be an album band. I love putting on albums.

— Alana Haim

My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.

— Mohit Chauhan

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

— Adam Sandler

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

— Juan Gabriel

I think we're just one of those bands that we know what we do best.

— Angus Young

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

— Lisa Stansfield

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

— Joey McIntyre

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

— Colleen Ballinger