Music making Quotes · Page 94

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play…

— Jimmy Page

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV…

— Maxwell

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.

— Nita Strauss

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

— Johnny Colt

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust.…

— Kim Gordon

I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

— Zara Larsson

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people…

— Adrian Younge

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it…

— Robertson Davies

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love…

— Adam Granduciel

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I…

— Paul Weller

I'm just grateful. I'm grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I'm grateful to be in a band of brothers…

— Coy Bowles

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff…

— Charlie Hunter

I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing…

— Diana Ross

I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in…

— Jeff Cardoni

When I first started playing, I plunked away just like everyone else. During the Sixties I played in a blues band for…

— Allan Holdsworth

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the…

— John Gourley

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is…

— Ramin Djawadi

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and…

— Dwight Yoakam

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an…

— Amanda Palmer

Singing has always been an important part of my life and I have always loved singing.

— Sara Khan

“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really?’ Ruth said, amazed, ‘How did that happen?’…

— Francine Rivers

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

— John Burnside

“Grown-ups everywhere are learning the instrument to relieve stress, focus their minds – and for the sheer joy it brings.”

— Anonymous

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

— Carolyn Porco

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while…

— Gabriella Wilson

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

— Nuno Bettencourt

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

— Grace Chatto

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

— Ad-Rock

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of…

— Charlie Heaton

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was…

— Richard Llewellyn

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

— Mohit Chauhan

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

— India Arie

I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by…

— Amrita Rao

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal…

— Megan Thee Stallion

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

— Rick Nielsen

I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and…

— Christian Fennesz

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music…

— Patrick Rothfuss