Music making Quotes · Page 66

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

— Charlotte Rampling

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as…

— Idris Elba

When you're in a band you can stay a teenager for years; my mood was determined by what number we were in…

— Martin Kemp

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

— Brendon Urie

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

— Nas

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly -…

— Imelda May

There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that…

— Mitch Albom

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

— Clyde Tombaugh

The Knobs started out as a project to do between Heartbreakers tours. I met the guys very organically, and I didnt really…

— Mike Campbell

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with…

— Toni Tennille

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the…

— Edie Brickell

I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and…

— Black Francis

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with…

— Zacky Vengeance

“Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning…

— James Murphy

When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the…

— Joe King

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has…

— Isaac Hanson

I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I'm, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like,…

— Tash Sultana

My band did the Teenage Fair battle of the bands - problem was we were 11 years old! They gave us a…

— Steve Lukather

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

— Lucinda Williams

“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”

— Owen Sheers

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

— Cynthia Ozick

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really…

— Michael Azerrad

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play…

— Max Lucado

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

— John Hawkes

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

— Aimee Mann

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

— Roger Taylor

I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I…

— Lexi Underwood

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

— James Hetfield

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

— Alex Scally

I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.

— Shawn Mendes

I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and…

— Marty Stuart

There's force-feeding people synthesised music, then there's a skill in technically being able to play an instrument, even if that is some…

— Ben Howard

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to…

— Billy Bragg

“I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.”

— John Wesley

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and…

— Chris Cornell

I realized I didn't want to make another solo record and I would be happier doing something that had more of a…

— John Waite

I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get…

— Michael Feinstein

Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful.

— Nirmala Srivastava

When a singer leaves a band, I believe the band loses something creatively and the fans are disappointed too.

— Ben Jackson