Music making Quotes · Page 62

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

— Jonathan Davis

Years and years ago, I sang at a blues bar with a band behind me. It was with my friend, my guitar…

— Josh Holloway

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.

— Dimebag Darrell

“Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.”

— Ken Standley

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

— Dimebag Darrell

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

— Daniel Barenboim

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't…

— Ryan Hemsworth

It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band…

— Jakob Dylan

If you're lucky enough to have a guitar player like Derek in your band, you have to give him time to shine,…

— Susan Tedeschi

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more…

— Arik Roper

The drummer is definitely the hidden hero of a band they really hold the music together. It's actually a really difficult job,…

— Dominic Cooper

“As we walk across the oval afterwards - the Goth, the beauty queen and the fat country girl - I can feel…

— Pip Harry

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers…

— Kim Gordon

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is…

— Brian Wilson

Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of…

— John de Lancie

I've always had a good time in bands, and when I wasn't having a good time, I left.

— Peter Frampton

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

— Daphne Guinness

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

— Ryan Hurd

To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.

— Zacky Vengeance

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play…

— Tim Rutili

If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a…

— Duff McKagan

The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child.…

— Carlene Carter

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

— GRiZ

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…

— James Weldon Johnson

Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

— Daniel Levitin

I've been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.

— Tarja Turunen

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

— Jay London

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV…

— Keren Woodward

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

— Bernie Worrell

Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone…

— Henry Mancini

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like…

— Dave Grohl

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every…

— Bibi Bourelly

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of…

— Jeremy Fisher

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that…

— Sam Hunt

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

— Duff McKagan

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

— Eddie Vedder

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from…

— Mark Hoppus

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good…

— Chris Martin