Music making Quotes · Page 78

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

— Grace Potter

Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you…

— Jordin Sparks

Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.

— Mohit Chauhan

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

— Dickey Betts

I got racks on top of racks. Uh! stacks on top of stacks. Uh! Bands on top of bands. Uh, got me…

— Waka Flocka

Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.

— Selah Louise Marley

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

— David Byrne

You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the…

— Thundercat

“She heard music. Angels singing? she thought, dizzy. It seemed odd for angels to sing after table sex. She managed to swallow…

— Nora Roberts

At the start of the band's career, I had ideas for songs and thoughts I figured out, but at the time I…

— Luke Hemmings

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow…

— Pete Townshend

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,…

— Anonymous

Everything is important to me... Forgetting the small details is not wise when you care so much about your music and band.…

— Rick DeJesus

The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe,…

— Ginuwine

I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music…

— Christian Fennesz

My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got…

— Khalid

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

— Rivers Cuomo

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this…

— Lady Gaga

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just…

— Chris Isaak

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song…

— Stephen Malkmus

You can go home and put the record on and dance. I want to watch how the band does it. I want…

— John Hughes

I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.

— Sid Sriram

“Mr. Bass, would you say you fish a lot? Or do you prefer strumming stringed instruments?”

— Jarod Kintz

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's…

— Lucy Dacus

Some days I want to look like I belong in a metal band, some days I want to look like I belong…

— Coco Gauff

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

— Craig Robinson

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 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

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

— Lara Fabian

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

— Rafal Blechacz

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

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

— Libba Bray

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