Music making Quotes · Page 81

Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to…

— Benji Madden

You manage one band and you manage two bands and then you build a business around that.

— Haim Saban

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

— Samuel Butler

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

— Nate Ruess

Singing is definitely something I'm not good at. I wish I could be good at it, but that's a skill I definitely…

— Daniel Ricciardo

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can…

— Debby Boone

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

— Dizzy Gillespie

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and…

— Thom Yorke

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the…

— Jon Tester

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it.…

— Bruce Springsteen

I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so…

— Joey Sturgis

I got asked by four different people that they wanted to know if I had a band what would I call it.Soo..I…

— Jasmine

When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered…

— Matthew Ramsey

The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one…

— Julian Treasure

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six…

— Bryce Dessner

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments -…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

— Debbie Harry

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t…

— Nate Ruess

It's a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.

— Keith Flint

The idea of strapping on a guitar and fronting a band has always scared me half to death.

— Josh Freese

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

— Diana DeGarmo

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

— David Cross

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous…

— Linda Ronstadt

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

— Ossie Davis

I love doing clean singing, which is one of the main things that drives me back to Kamelot all the time.

— Alissa White-Gluz

You never know what's next for me. I might go into making one of them rock bands.

— Scarface

Being in this band is like being in high school all over again. We're like a bunch of little maniacs.

— Gina Schock

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to…

— Rene Auberjonois

“A good guitarist will always try to get the best out of the instrument that they are holding in their hands. The…

— André van Eck

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

— Evan Esar

“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung. Rabindranath Tagore”

— Christina Carson

When I'm not doing solo shows, I'm performing with my cowboy band Los Pacaminos - we play the kind of music you'd…

— Paul Young

I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued…

— Bradley Cooper

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

— Mike Portnoy

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

— Rumi

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”

— Oscar Wilde

I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

— Mike McCready

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

— Rosemary Clooney

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

— Marlo Morgan