Music making Quotes · Page 92

We wanted to create the kind of band of whom I'd be jealous if we went and saw them. We dug deep…

— Joey Jordison

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is…

— Anna Camp

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band…

— Jennifer Garner

Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the…

— Joan Osborne

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the…

— Stephen Stills

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

— Blake Shelton

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my…

— Garth Greenwell

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike…

— Chico Hamilton

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but…

— David Johansen

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover…

— Neil Peart

Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking…

— Eddie Harris

Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince…

— Trey Songz

The bottom line is the bigger you get as a band, the more people tell you how great you are in the…

— John Dolmayan

I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social…

— Michael Franti

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to…

— Jack Garratt

My life a stage I need her just to stand on it. Everyday she look back, I toss a band on it.

— Rick Ross

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

— Anonymous

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

— Bruno Mars

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

— Ashley Roberts

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever…

— Chris Lowe

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

— Robert Smith

“But it was late. We had to go home. We listened to the river singing, the river singing stone.”

— Myrna Peña-Reyes

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it's our…

— Jade Bird

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

— Phil Collins

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

— Mattew Nicholls

Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to…

— Jimmy Page

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different…

— John Frusciante

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

— Christopher Masterson

“God calls His people to celebrate Him with singing and playing, and then He promises to do a little drumming of His…

— Terry Law

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that…

— Tom Waits

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar…

— Robbie Robertson

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

— Johan Renck

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

— Grimes

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's…

— Chris Cornell

I started taking part in college competitions... my first-ever performance with a band was in McDonald's, and I got Rs 500. I…

— Atif Aslam

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and…

— M. Shadows

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

— Nancy Gibbs