Music making Quotes · Page 49

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

— Bill Bruford

People don't necessarily know who I am. Some people think Bonobo is a band.

— Bonobo

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

— Nick Cave

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

— Jason Bonham

I've been having singing lessons whenever I can fit them in.

— Gemma Collins

This ain't no fucking sing-along so, girl, what you singing for?

— The Weeknd

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music

— Phil Anselmo

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

— Dolly Parton

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

— Lenny Kravitz

Fans want new music. We're the same way. We have bands that we like, and whether they release it or not, we're…

— John Dolmayan

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the…

— Trevor Rabin

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

— Steven Tyler

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in…

— Wallace Shawn

When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.

— Ian Gillan

Weve always done a bunch of musically diverse things. We were just showing a broader side of the band, the more melodic…

— Dimebag Darrell

I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying…

— Kim Shattuck

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,…

— Matana Roberts

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a…

— Murray Head

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

I had a band when I was in middle school, but I was the drummer. I kind of thought if I was…

— Borns

I'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And…

— John Waite

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the…

— Jonathan Tropper

In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where…

— Joscelyn Godwin

I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

— Joe Casey

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

— Paul Gauguin

I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.

— Floor Jansen

I like going around everywhere and singing to people.

— Mason Ramsey

Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

— Woody Herman

“You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

— John Updike

My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

— Lalaine

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

— Pam Dawber

I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.

— Rene Marie

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

— Ed Sheeran

For a band to make it to four albums is no small feat in itself.

— Luke Hemmings

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

— Alfredo Kraus

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

— John Wozniak

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

— Alan Kay

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing...

— Plato