Music making Quotes · Page 90

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.

— Miles Davis

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

— Noel Gallagher

I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other…

— John Tiffany

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned…

— John F. Kerry

In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to…

— James Righton

“If love played an instrument, I’ll bet it would be the piano. 88 keys, double infinity, and the ability to chop down…

— Jarod Kintz

When you go out for the night with your buddies, it feels like you're in a band, and I think everybody can…

— Matthew Ramsey

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead -…

— Danny Barker

The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine…

— Horace Silver

I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some…

— Carla Azar

After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful…

— Panda Bear

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or…

— Patti Smith

In L.A., we played rock venues because we had a band, which hip-hop venues couldn't accommodate. And within that, we created a…

— Taboo

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down…

— Ry Cooder

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return…

— Mick Jagger

Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go…

— Wayne Static

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

— Samuel Butler

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good…

— Christopher Owens

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have…

— Kevin Spacey

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I…

— Pixie Lott

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

— Janis Joplin

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

— Bruce Dickinson

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

— Jerry Cantrell

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking…

— Matt Cameron

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

— Ric Ocasek

My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to…

— Henry Mancini

For about three years I was playing clubs and theatres, I had a band, and I made a recording a few years…

— Laura Nyro

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play…

— Frank Fairfield

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of…

— Al Pacino

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

— Billie Holiday

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

— Nanci Griffith

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice,…

— Yoko Ono

I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created…

— Kat Graham

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

— Levon Helm

Singing has always been my big passion and I would love to be able to go to the U.S. and perform more.

— Katherine Jenkins

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to…

— Maggie Rogers

I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would…

— Holly Marie Combs