Music making Quotes · Page 48

I couldn't imagine being in a band with people I didn't like.

— Calum Hood

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

— Steve Porcaro

Our goal was definitely to be the biggest band in the world, for sure.

— Redfoo

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

— Ambrose Bierce

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

— Nancy Wilson

I am just the band leader, and I just keep everything in tune.

— Wong Kar-wai

I'm watching The Singing Detective.' I'm rather taken by it.

— Jonathan Bailey

“ Sing to me in the language of leviathan, that I may know his name. ”

— George R.R. Martin

I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never…

— Eugene Mirman

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in…

— Lauren Mayberry

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

— Stan Getz

When I was a kid, I could make music out of anything, whether it be a rubber band, a tin can. Whatever…

— Jose Feliciano

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

— Dick Van Dyke

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a…

— Ambrose Bierce

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.

— Elliott Smith

When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are…

— Chris Lane

I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of…

— Morgan Llywelyn

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you…

— Gina Schock

One thing I've always been proud of is that vicious dichotomy between the pretty controlled, angular playing of the band, and my…

— Carey Mercer

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I…

— Nils Frahm

That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious…

— Zacky Vengeance

People think because I'm crazy, I don't know anything. My dad played bass with Hector Lavoe, with Marc Anthony, with Ricky Martin,…

— Anuel AA

I played a Fender Precision for a little while, when I originally joined the band. Then - what is that little headless…

— Cliff Williams

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band…

— Jack White

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

— James Maslow

I don't just sing in the shower... I perform.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

— Anonymous

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

— Kevin Costner

I was in the band for the first six albums.

— Steve Porcaro

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

— Anais Nin

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

— Tom Holland

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

— Lou Gramm

“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.”

— Christopher Smart

I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

— Christine McVie

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

— Chris Colfer

I've been singing in church and wherever else I got the chance since I was 3.

— Morgan Wallen

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

— Evan Dando

“The instrument through which time is converted is called work.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I was actually in a Take That tribute band.

— Rylan Clark-Neal

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

— Ringo Starr