Music making Quotes · Page 127

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

— Maggie Rogers

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

— Ernest Mandel

I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to…

— Jon Bellion

“The eighties are a sorely underrated decade in terms of musical composition. They don’t get nearly the respect they deserve. I try…

— Emma Chase

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.

— Jam Master Jay

“I am Evanescence. I am the only band member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine…

— Evanescence Amy Lee

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the…

— Dave Barry

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

— Franz Schubert

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

— Deep Roy

Things I'm bad at: singing. Things I do a lot: sing.

— Ritu Ghatourey

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

— Tod Machover

I forgot that being in a band was this much fun.

— Ryan Ross

“I started a band because I actually thought I could be Bon Jovi, and now here I am, sitting in a puddle…

— Christopher Russell

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You…

— Stephen Colbert

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

— Wynton Marsalis

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several…

— Maggie Stiefvater

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

— Taron Egerton

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

— Jimmy Iovine

I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands…

— Jamie Hince

I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on…

— Shinichiro Watanabe

The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the…

— Bruce Springsteen

The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each…

— Maria Brink

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

— Tiffany Darwish

My love of singing is hereditary.

— Susan Boyle

I can play piano by ear, and some guitar. But I definitely havent mastered either instrument. I do it for fun as…

— Ashley Tisdale

When people first heard I was doing a band thing, they thought it would be an aggro rock-rap thing.

— Everlast

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

— Paul McCartney

The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.

— Romy Madley Croft

When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as…

— Adam Young

This is the band I always wanted to be in.

— Phil Anselmo

People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.

— Harry Dean Stanton

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so…

— Jools Holland

There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that…

— Toby Keith

The piano is an instrument I've always loved and so I taught myself. As a rapper, who wants to produce more, being…

— Santan Dave

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you…

— E.M. Forster

A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.

— Anthony Fantano

“Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it…

— Nick Hornby