Music making Quotes · Page 76

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental…

— Vidyasagar

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox…

— Chino Moreno

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

— Max Roach

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp

I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, 'Yes! I never knew it, but that's exactly what I…

— Tech N9ne

“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.”

— Charlie Parker

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of…

— Chesney Hawkes

Being a little kid, I'd sit at whatever instrument, and I always preffered making stuff up as opposed to learning other people's…

— Alex G

You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass…

— Keith Morris

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I…

— Paul Weller

When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player.…

— Bryce Dessner

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of…

— Joachim-Ernst Berendt

The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon…

— Paul Gilbert

With 'Game of Thrones,' the most dominant instrument would definitely be the cello. That's something I just felt really captured the mood…

— Ramin Djawadi

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer…

— Tom Waits

In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people…

— Elizabeth Berkley

I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't.

— Tom Junod

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly,…

— Mike McCready

I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road... Well, I can't even believe this is…

— Jane Monheit

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

— Alison Moyet

A band requires so much rehearsal and travel logistics. I didn't mind it when I was younger, but there's not much motivation…

— Mark Kozelek

One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was…

— James Murphy

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

— Nellie McKay

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner…

— Ernest Newman

I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really…

— Levon Helm

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

— Jon Gordon

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by…

— Mic Geronimo

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

— Mandy Moore

There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.

— Mike Patton

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying…

— Nat Wolff

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring…

— Jerry Harrison

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

— Lisa Ann Sandell

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

— Paul Gilbert

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

— Keith Urban

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

— Eddie Izzard

We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was…

— Curt Smith

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

— Ram Dass

I've never wanted to do something that wouldn't be fulfilling, so behind the music and the singing, I love being happy.

— Benson Boone

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

— Jack Antonoff

Even if you're the biggest band in the world, there's probably something else you want.

— James Righton