Music making Quotes · Page 58

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

— Keith Richards

My singing is a mix between Jericho/ Fergie/ Jesus

— Dolph Ziggler

With my band, I feel comfortable anywhere in the world.

— Jaimoe

I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.

— Darci Lynne Farmer

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

— Jerry Harrison

I spent all of my youth wanting to be in a band.

— James Righton

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

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us…

— Ian Rankin

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

— Colm Meaney

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in…

— David Cassidy

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the…

— Rick Astley

Being in a band is like a marriage because you have to care about everybody because you're all living together.

— Susan Tedeschi

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting…

— Chris Daughtry

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

— David Byrne

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even…

— John Petrucci

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a…

— Charles Munch

There were bands back in the '90s when I started building a rock CD collection or whatever, I would get their CD…

— Lacey Sturm

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in…

— Ted Leo

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required…

— Steve Martin

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music…

— David Byrne

My instrumentals ain't up for rental but come and try em and if you wanna buy em then. I supply em I…

— Kool G Rap

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky,…

— Sarah McLachlan

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

— Ed Sheeran

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

— Lalaine

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

I know nothing other than singing and I feel blessed.

— Javed Ali

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

— Leona Lewis

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

— Tom Anderson

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

— Jonathan King

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

— Vladimir Horowitz

I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.

— Mike McCready

I've been singing, literally, since I was born.

— James Charles

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

— Floor Jansen

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

— Dave Matthews

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

— Johannes Kepler