Music making Quotes · Page 103

Because I didn't have a band I took electronic music and tried to mix it with indie-punk, and I became a pioneer…

— Peaches

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

— Ringo Starr

The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child.…

— Carlene Carter

If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a…

— Duff McKagan

To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.

— Zacky Vengeance

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play…

— Tim Rutili

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

— Daphne Guinness

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

— Ryan Hurd

Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the…

— Marco Mendoza

I left my band on my own, and it took me a long time to find major success again - almost a…

— Greg Kurstin

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get…

— Grace Potter

I think musically, there's always the stuff you're into that you've always been into but every once in a while there's a…

— Dusty Redmon

I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This…

— Daryl Stuermer

With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like…

— Kevin Parker

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young'…

— Nate Ruess

First, I started to play the organ. I did that until I was 11. From the age of 11 to 13, I…

— Ramin Djawadi

Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

— Daniel Levitin

I've been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.

— Tarja Turunen

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

— Jay London

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV…

— Keren Woodward

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

— Bernie Worrell

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

— GRiZ

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…

— James Weldon Johnson

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a…

— Gloria Gaynor

I think I'm going to do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. I definitely want to sing someday, though.…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

“The bands of color in a rainbow remind me of my band, Bands of Color. We’re not very musical, but we sure…

— Jarod Kintz

I have never been vocal about my singing abilities, but I am always ready to present my dancing skills.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if…

— Edith Piaf

My least favorite thing about being in a band is photo shoots and video shoots. I like writing songs.

— Laura Jane Grace

“The band had morphed into another sweet melancholy song. "I'm Not Supposed To Love You Anymore." If that wasn't the voice of…

— Kristan Higgins

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out…

— Phil Collins

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

— Mick Jagger

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

— Emilia Clarke

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I…

— Carrie Brownstein

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.

— Gwen Stefani

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

— Julie Andrews

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

— Andrew Bird

People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.

— Dennis DeYoung

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more…

— Rob Halford