Music making Quotes · Page 54

In the end, it's always about the three-piece band and the singer.

— John Waite

My band is stupid, and we're gonna continue to be stupid, I guess.

— John Dolmayan

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

— Lauren Myracle

I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

— Sonny Sandoval

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

— Francis Thompson

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

— Rhiannon Giddens

My favorite instrument is a bemrimbau. I play that every night.

— Max Cavalera

“Sing, if you can sing, and if not still be musical inside yourself.”

— Mary Oliver

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records…

— Will Oldham

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

— Lee Ann Womack

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I…

— Alison Moyet

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

— Mandy Moore

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail…

— Cassandra Wilson

I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come…

— Jens Lekman

I honestly felt sometimes when I was younger that there were maybe constraints within genre, like, 'Oh it's too strange if I…

— Ellie Rowsell

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you…

— Alex Turner

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar…

— Eddie Van Halen

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem…

— Jose Feliciano

I went to a music store and I saw this machine called the Roland MC-505. It was just a groovebox - half…

— Peaches

Back in high school, I had this folk protest band, and I used to write all the time. And then, when I…

— Kate Pierson

I'm not ruling out music forever. I'd love to do that, but if I ever did, I don't think it would be…

— Maia Mitchell

There's no such thing as a lead singer in our band.

— Steve Lukather

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

— Ted Dwane

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

— Hozier

I play in a band called Hellyeah, and I really love doing it.

— Vinnie Paul

A show is all about a shared energy between the kids and the band.

— Gabe Saporta

“Wat happens in the band room stays in the band room”

— John Green

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

— Tod Machover

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

— Toby Keith

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

— Walt Whitman

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

— Noel Coward

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

— Ringo Starr

To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

— Maria Callas

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

— Dylan Moran

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

— Amy Ray