Music making Quotes · Page 96

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail…

— Cassandra Wilson

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part…

— DJ Spooky

It's a really unique experience to have a band that's a 12 piece working together as one mind.

— Susan Tedeschi

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is…

— Steve Vai

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.

— Jani Lane

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love…

— Benji Madden

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of…

— R. Kelly

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me,…

— Matisyahu

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family…

— Irene Cara

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and…

— Steve Carell

We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we…

— Matthew Ramsey

I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were…

— Benjamin Spock

When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal…

— Josh Peck

I did a capella for a year at boarding school and then I stopped because at Yale, I think they really focus…

— Kevin Olusola

The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface…

— Washed Out

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

— Wynton Marsalis

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

— Clarence Clemons

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on…

— Ruben Blades

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what…

— Taylor Momsen

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

— Billie Holiday

Its your wish to be an instrument of change or an observer of change. I'll rather be an instrument of change.

— Melchor Lim

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or…

— Kellin Quinn

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

— Kaci Brown

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

“Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?”

— Dada Bhagwan

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

— Eric Carmen

“The lights flickered. The bands laid down their instruments and the crowds made quiety for the door.”

— Amor Towles

If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is…

— James Murphy

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

— Dreezy

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

— Steve Young

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

I've always been known for writing lyrics or being in a band but not necessarily for 'Oh, I love that guy's voice!'

— Matthew Koma

You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.

— Ted Dwane

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

— Steven Tyler

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in…

— Wallace Shawn