Music making Quotes · Page 100

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

— George Benson

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

— Gene Simmons

I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate…

— Robert Rinder

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

— John Gourley

When I was young, I wanted to do something innocuous, like become a drummer in a rock and roll band.

— Brooke Burke

“Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come…

— Charles Carleton Coffin

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't…

— Julia Holter

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,…

— Dr. John

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music.…

— Yelawolf

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick…

— Tommy Chong

I think it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better…

— Jason C. Miller

That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped…

— Jimmy Page

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs -…

— Marion Raven

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now.…

— Carlos Santana

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed…

— John McLaughlin

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

— Keith Jarrett

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

— Francine Rivers

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big…

— Al Jarreau

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I…

— James Mercer

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

— Yanni

I used to dance around the house and taught myself the 'Annie' soundtrack. I got into singing and fell in love with…

— Alexis Dziena

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want…

— Jacob Collier

“An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be…

— Paul David Tripp

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play…

— Yann Tiersen

No one has done what we've done. We're the first female band to have a No. 1 record.

— Charlotte Caffey

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

— Tom DeLonge

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

— Adam Anderson

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also…

— Ron Currie Jr

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in…

— Drew Goddard

My dad has been fond of music since childhood. He used to play and sing in his college band in Russia.

— Jonita Gandhi

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite…

— Ric Ocasek

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

— Nick Cave

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into…

— Henry Rollins

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

— Patrick Stump

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

— Michael Anthony

I am passionate about singing, and I strive to improve with every song and keep getting better.

— Guru Randhawa

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