Music making Quotes · Page 82

Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is…

— Steve Nash

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor…

— Ned Sublette

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So…

— Sophie Cookson

I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want…

— Dianne Reeves

Typically in Korea when I perform I have a full band, a ten-piece band, and that's a completely different monster in itself…

— Eric Nam

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care…

— Josephine Baker

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty…

— Justin Bieber

I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in…

— Jon Gordon

I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We…

— Hozier

No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your…

— Tim Commerford

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career…

— Adrian Smith

There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick,…

— Dawn Richard

I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico…

— Carl Wilson

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how…

— Jonny Greenwood

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just…

— Gene Simmons

I feel like fans really want to spread the word about the band. I guess when you've done three records, you feel…

— Yukimi Nagano

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of…

— Jon Gordon

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free…

— Martin Luther

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

— Brian McKnight

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla…

— Gary Burton

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

— Vinnie Paul

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

— John Legend

I was that kid that did dance, singing, pageants. I did everything pretty much across the board, so it was kind of…

— Normani Kordei

If something is done really well then the question of live vs. DJ vs. instruments vs. drum machines doesn't matter - it's…

— Bonobo

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics…

— Cat Power

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

— Richard Strauss

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock…

— Moira Kelly

So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity…

— Buddy Rich

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing…

— Mark Morris

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

— Van Morrison

I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what?

— Rick Nielsen

“The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not…

— Nick Jonas

I wanna drive around the city with some friends in a convertable singing forever young.

— Anonymous

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

— Stacy London

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

— Darrell Hammond

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

— Martin Heidegger

The 'Discovery' album is really complex and really rich and really full of instruments, different parts and stuff.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

— Tom Jones