Music making Quotes · Page 46

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

— Mick Ralphs

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

— Graham Coxon

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

— Susan Tedeschi

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

— Charlotte Caffey

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

— Conrad Aiken

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

— David Milch

My friends always had bands, and we would play together.

— King Tuff

I can sing, but I don't know how pleasing it is to the ear, you know.

— Robert Sheehan

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

— John Britt Daniel

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

— Joe Perry

When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing…

— Kelli O'Hara

My mom and sisters liked to sing and we would jam at home very often. I would also jam a lot in…

— Amit Trivedi

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have…

— Curt Smith

Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.

— Raven-Symone

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it…

— Alison Krauss

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter…

— Pliny the Elder

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to…

— Manika

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at…

— Dominic Fike

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we…

— Bob Seger

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I…

— Miranda Hart

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up…

— Tom Piazza

The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to…

— Gregg Allman

With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent,…

— Ed Sheeran

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way…

— Jarvis Cocker

I don't think anyone can relate to me as well as my band-mates can.

— Tony Kanal

Besides gardening, I love to sketch and to sing.

— Rekha

We're working twice as hard as any other band.

— Bill Kaulitz

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

— Harry James

I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else.

— Tonya Mitchell

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

— Charles de Gaulle

Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.

— Ellen G. White

Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing.

— Anonymous

He's the song in the car I keep singing. Dont know why I do.

— Taylor Swift

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

— Mark Hoppus

Sing, that's the most powerful weapon you have.

— Gerard Way

Acting and singing are integrally locked together.

— Dean Butler

“If the redeemed sing, presumably someone must write the songs.”

— Charles Williams

I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.

— Harry Connick, Jr

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

— Trombone Shorty

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

— Elvis Costello