Music making Quotes · Page 57

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

— Lauren Myracle

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

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

— Adrian Dunbar

Things I'm bad at: singing. Things I do a lot: sing.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I've always enjoyed singing as a hobby and an antidepressant.

— Jenny Ryan

“I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.”

— Jarod Kintz

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you…

— Stan Getz

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to…

— Paul Gruchow

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the…

— Alber Elbaz

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at…

— Sharon Jones

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

— Sharon Jones

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

— Guy Clark

There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some…

— Dave Grohl

You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the…

— Paul Rodgers

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the…

— Roy Wood

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative…

— Jason Mantzoukas

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done…

— Garret Dillahunt

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what…

— St. Jerome

You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to…

— Stephen Bruner

You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van,…

— Imelda May

I am going to sing into my 60s and 70s and 80s, if I can.

— Jamie Park

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey

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

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

— Black Francis

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

— Kurt Elling

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

— Plato

I'm one of the most, like, 'wanting-to-tour' guys in the band.

— Shavo Odadjian