Music making Quotes · Page 64

With the second record there's a need to show that we weren't chancers, that we could play our instruments.

— James Righton

So alone, just me and an instrumental. They say my music ain't normal, must be something up with my mental.

— Kid Cudi

When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult…

— Oscar Isaac

Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

— Luciano Pavarotti

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

— Patrick Stump

When I was a kid I was always listening and singing along to Disney compilation CDs.

— Kirstin Maldonado

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who…

— Chris Cornell

I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to…

— Aaron Bruno

When it comes to the singing part, I think I missed the boat - the whole family can sing except for me.…

— Joe Calzaghe

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them…

— Lisa Marie Presley

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do…

— Ian MacKaye

We had a band called the Grainers. In our 12-year-old minds, this was like a double entendre for like being annoying and…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first…

— Artie Shaw

It takes a lot to put a 5-piece band on, even though we need it. We need those harmonies; I need those…

— The-Dream

I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Elvis does his own singing and selects his own songs for his records. Hundreds of songs are submitted to him. I don't…

— Colonel Tom Parker

I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.

— Craig Robinson

I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast…

— John Fogerty

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel

— Gavin DeGraw

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

— Libba Bray

The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but…

— Charli XCX

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

— Rafal Blechacz

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

— Lara Fabian

I definitely like being in bands with other women because it's just, I don't know, it's just better.

— Ali Koehler

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

— David Gilmour

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did…

— Carl Palmer

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound…

— Pat Smear

I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

— Bellamy Young

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

— Amos Oz

I like to go to concerts because I love to see my favorite band through the phone of the asshole who's standing…

— Demetri Martin

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back…

— Bo Burnham

My dad had a cover band. They would rehearse in my living room while my mom was pregnant.

— Gabriella Wilson

If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.

— Jane Wiedlin

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

We do a big business with our midsized-venue model. We don't need bands to be on the top-ten charts to make money.

— Michael Rapino

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

— Robby Krieger

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at…

— Steven Tyler

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and…

— Ananya Birla