Music making Quotes · Page 45

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

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

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

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

— Jeremih

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

— Tom Waits

We had so many hit singles, and usually right in a row, that we tended to be dismissed again by our detractors…

— Richard Carpenter

One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid.

— CM Punk

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a…

— Zoltan Kodaly

When you're on stage and you got a great audience, that makes the show that much better for the band.

— Charlotte Caffey

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my…

— Zac Brown

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

— John Lescroart

To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite…

— Tracey Thorn

I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom,…

— Jay DeMarcus

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The…

— Derek Bailey

When I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the…

— Steve Lukather

I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's…

— Angus Young

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my…

— Billy Joel

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a…

— Dan Hicks

“Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight…

— Carson McCullers

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

— Gary Rossington

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

— Matt Cameron

“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

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

— Benji Madden

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

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

— Lapsley

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

— Sarah Harding

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

— Randy Travis

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

— André Aciman