Music making Quotes · Page 89

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

— Tom DeLonge

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

— Pat Smear

I grew up in the church around my mum singing in the choir and my dad leading worship. Music runs in my…

— Raye

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine…

— Amy Lee

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and…

— Cheech Marin

“His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.”

— Juliet Marillier

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of…

— David Sanborn

You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

— Abby Brammell

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged…

— John Ruskin

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained…

— Vanessa Carlton

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an…

— Kerry Washington

Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years?…

— Einar Selvik

I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar…

— George Harrison

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how…

— Erykah Badu

The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop…

— Joe Nichols

I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I…

— George Pelecanos

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

— Josie Ho

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are…

— Emily Haines

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

— Bryan Clay

There's always so much energy from me and my band. Lots of fun and twists in each song.

— Jorja Smith

We've always prided ourselves on the fact that we're a band that the whole family can enjoy together.

— Jay DeMarcus

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a…

— Robin Pecknold

I love being one of the musicians in the back. The light is on the singer and Im in the band. I…

— Marion Cotillard

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

— Cass McCombs

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

— Lindsay Lohan

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such,…

— P. J. Harvey

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting…

— Lucinda Williams

I love the string band. I love the sound of it, the possibilities of it, I love the physical sensation of creating…

— Chris Thile

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

— Adam Anderson

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also…

— Ron Currie Jr

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in…

— Drew Goddard

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

My dad has been fond of music since childhood. He used to play and sing in his college band in Russia.

— Jonita Gandhi

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite…

— Ric Ocasek

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

— Nick Cave

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into…

— Henry Rollins

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

— Patrick Stump

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

— Michael Anthony

I am passionate about singing, and I strive to improve with every song and keep getting better.

— Guru Randhawa