Music making Quotes · Page 99

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band…

— Rich Brian

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

— Shusha Guppy

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be:…

— Luke Hemmings

You know, we love what we do, man, and I don't want to be one of those bands that we write an…

— Ivan Moody

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort…

— Madonna Ciccone

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

— George Santayana

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you…

— David Sanborn

“Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps,…

— John Calvin

Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained…

— Barbara Holland

I've been making electronic music since I was 12. I was making music as soon as I knew how to make sounds…

— Travis Stewart

You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established…

— John Corabi

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet…

— Noel Gallagher

Every band is different just because of the different combinations of people really are super unique to every band. The way you…

— Ali Koehler

When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then…

— Lucinda Williams

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything…

— Beth Ditto

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be…

— Lily Allen

“The tunes he played on that instrument wouldn't be audible to the living. That didn't mean they wouldn't be real.”

— Seanan McGuire

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole…

— Tobias Forge

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

— Lee Ranaldo

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you…

— Stan Getz

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to…

— Paul Gruchow

“I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.”

— Jarod Kintz

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the…

— Alber Elbaz

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at…

— Sharon Jones

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

— Sharon Jones

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

— Guy Clark

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us…

— Ian Rankin

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

— Colm Meaney

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in…

— David Cassidy

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the…

— Rick Astley

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get…

— Stephen Mangan

People love to hear a guy who is really good on his instrument. They love to watch him go.

— Henry Mancini

I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

— Skepta

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

— Alfredo Kraus

We're always trying to do something better than the last record; to do something different and evolve as a band.

— Johnny Christ

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

— Stanley Clarke

“So if you were a boy band, you’d be One Erection,” I state, rambling because they have me nervous.”

— Kristy Cunning