Music making Quotes · Page 59

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.

— Tia Carrere

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower,

— Jessica Pare

It's not an easy thing to manage - school and being in a band.

— Soccer Mommy

Sex is the instrument and love the music.

— Isabel Allende

When the band starts banging and the fiddle saws.

— Blake Shelton

Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.

— Huey Morgan

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without…

— Charlie Musselwhite

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.

— Yasmine Hamdan

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

— Devin Townsend

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

— Layne Staley

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

— Boy George

“It was a want ad for a band seeking a bass player. The name to call was Slash. With”

— Duff McKagan

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good…

— Andrew Ripp

Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really…

— Matt Cameron

A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is…

— Bryce Dessner

A band in our position, we have a first impression to make. We don't want to come out of the gate and…

— Matthew Ramsey

Ah, the Wrecking Crew! They played on everything that came out of L.A. Oh, that was a good band. You really enjoyed…

— Glen Campbell

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business…

— David Longstreth

People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you…

— Maurice Gibb

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's…

— Lenny Kravitz

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that…

— Colin Greenwood

I left school and didn't go to university to be in a band.

— James Acaster

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

— Mary Oliver

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

— Chris O'Dowd

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

— K. D. Lang

Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!

— Don Ellis

I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

— Opal Whiteley

We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band.

— Winston Marshall

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

— David Byrne

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

— Gregory Harrison

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

— Rostam Batmanglij

We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

— Devin Townsend

Sport's been an instrumental thing in my life.

— Denise Lewis

Got a band-aid on my face cause I'm just that cool!!!

— Anonymous

I have gotten so far with my sheer ability to sing.

— KK

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

— Joey Ramone