Music making Quotes · Page 73

“A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller".”

— John Green

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

— Brad Delson

I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we're pushing ourselves to try new things and…

— Wayne Static

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it…

— Duke Ellington

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and…

— Chris Pine

I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.

— Kurt Elling

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you…

— Evelyn Glennie

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

— James Iha

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I…

— Jim Capaldi

I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the…

— Jonny Greenwood

“How is slippery ice like music? A: If you don’t C sharp, you’ll B flat. Q: How do you make a band…

— Joe Kozlowski

Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst…

— Michael Rother

Nobody thought I could do anything with a singing career... except my singing teachers, who were accustomed to hearing voices that could…

— Barbi Benton

For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of…

— Lzzy Hale

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and…

— Steve Vai

The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed…

— Joe Walsh

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

— Bryn Terfel

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

— Danny Carey

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times…

— Zooey Deschanel

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a…

— Mason Cooley

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college…

— Brian Dietzen

“I am Evanescence. I am the only band member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine…

— Evanescence Amy Lee

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to…

— Lindsey Buckingham

With singing, you get lost in the music - I go into another world when I'm singing.

— Asha Bhosle

I was in several bands, and we just started off doing the clubs and dancehalls in the valleys - and eventually moved…

— Shakin' Stevens

I feel that energy up there on stage. The band, the crew and our road family - the look in their eyes…

— Kenny Chesney

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

— Adam Jones

I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.

— Davey Havok

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the…

— Jon Bon Jovi

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.

— Hozier

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being…

— Kim Gordon

I guess we share some traits with different boy bands. But we are boys in a band.

— Calum Hood

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to…

— Yul Vazquez

I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't…

— Harry Chapin

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to…

— Tommy Bolin

I'm not the hugest fan of pop music and electro music, which is why 'The Inevitable Album' was entirely live instruments.

— Jinkx Monsoon