Music making Quotes · Page 104

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

— James Murphy

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

— Stevie Jackson

Remember kids: Don't get emotionally attached to a band. You'll get pregnant and die.

— Ashton Irwin

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

— Leonid Andreyev

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the…

— John Petrucci

“Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop”

— Vanessa Vanney Thompson

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

— Henry Rollins

Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test…

— Joey Kramer

Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I…

— Alison Pill

I used to be in music, in a punk band in my teens. It was very teenage of me, I wanted to…

— Rege-Jean Page

I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and…

— David Longstreth

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place…

— William Trevor

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed…

— Saffron Burrows

If you work with so many classical instruments... I mean, it still has this power, and it's still connected to the idea…

— Pantha du Prince

My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way…

— Dylan Baldi

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar,…

— Chick Corea

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

— Naturi Naughton

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

— Matt Nathanson

Even before we had a band, the merging of music and movies just seemed so perfect.

— Ron Mael

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

— Prince Philip

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

— Evelyn Glennie

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

— Paul Rodgers

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental…

— Vidyasagar

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

— John Darnielle

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore…

— Mat McNerney

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

— Charles Ives

I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when…

— Ivan Moody

“He who lives for an encounter with the unseen becomes the instrument of the seen.”

— Paul Auster

Being a little kid, I'd sit at whatever instrument, and I always preffered making stuff up as opposed to learning other people's…

— Alex G

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of…

— Chesney Hawkes

I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't.

— Tom Junod

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly,…

— Mike McCready

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp

“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.”

— Charlie Parker

I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, 'Yes! I never knew it, but that's exactly what I…

— Tech N9ne

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

— Max Roach

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox…

— Chino Moreno

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by…

— Mic Geronimo

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

— Mandy Moore

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

— Jon Gordon