Music making Quotes · Page 77

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

— Carl Sandburg

I never really thought about pursuing singing because my whole life was about dance and singing just kind of came with it.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you…

— Luke Evans

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

— Marianne Williamson

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a…

— Christian Finnegan

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

— Linda Ronstadt

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record…

— Peter Frampton

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

— Charlotte Rampling

To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that.…

— Zachary Cole Smith

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He…

— Bob Dylan

I do love music and I did actually have my own band once. It was a rap band. I was eight and…

— Nicole Richie

'Circuital' was just so much about us as a band. We captured every song live, including the main vocal. That is probably…

— Jim James

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That…

— Arlo Guthrie

I've always been a singer in my mind. Fronting a band is something I've never done because I've always done other things.…

— Josh Klinghoffer

Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, 'Hey, can you…

— Floor Jansen

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

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

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

— Lucinda Williams

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

— Steve Lukather

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

— Cynthia Ozick

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

— Owen Sheers

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

— John Hawkes

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

— Max Lucado

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

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history…

— Alan Bishop

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

— Christopher Lee

We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

— Jaime Preciado

As a band, when we started, that was all we were good at. It wasn't 'we've got to be a guitar band';…

— Luke Hemmings

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what…

— Bret Michaels

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and…

— David Friedman

Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the…

— Billy Sherwood

When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do…

— Irene Cara