Music making Quotes · Page 87

Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

— Jens Lekman

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

— Jack Garratt

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

— Dalai Lama

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if…

— Alexander Chee

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for…

— Keith Flint

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

— John Gourley

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

— Ailyn Perez

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

— Cody Simpson

A band that we supported called Blackfish in Manchester, played the most insane gig I've ever been to. Everything was set on…

— Matthew Healy

You're in for a live band. That's really what I wanted; I wanted to put on a show for people where they…

— King Princess

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment,…

— Peter Garrett

My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for…

— Jill Sobule

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without…

— Scott Weiland

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band,…

— Andrew Bird

We're doing all the shows as an eight-piece band. There's so many different kinds of palettes for each film that we've had…

— Stuart A. Staples

“I should let you know that I had no idea how to play the guitar or any other musical instrument, and that…

— David Wong

It's a gas, just phoning up some bands and saying: 'You don't know us but we love you and would you come…

— Gord Downie

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

— Imelda May

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save…

— Zoltan Kodaly

I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments.

— Santhosh Narayanan

“The heart is a The thousand-stringed instrument That can only be tuned with Love.”

— Anonymous

I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria,…

— Rich Brian

I've always loved singing, and wanted to do musicals. Watching them as a child was what convinced me that I wanted to…

— Rebbie Jackson

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

— David Johansen

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

— Sheryl Crow

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

— Hunter Hayes

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that…

— Bob Geldof

When we started off, we weren't even thinking of being a global band. We just ended up becoming that.

— Steve Harris

I'm very creative - making music, making puppets, that's my thing - but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not…

— Devin Townsend

What I love about having a 10-person band is you don't have to go there and just be there for me. You…

— Tom Sandoval

Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you…

— Lee Greenwood

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure…

— Evan Parker

Singing is also like acting, since I memorize my lines, and I sing with emotions, too.

— Lee Min-ho

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely…

— Yasmine Hamdan

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love…

— Joanna Newsom

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a…

— Patrick Stump

Singing soothes me. It is something that I have always been doing and will continue to do.

— Ammy Virk

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

— Caroline Corr

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my…

— Sia Furler