Music making Quotes · Page 128

Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.

— Raven-Symone

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm…

— Khalid

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

— Matt Squire

“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

— Samuel Butler

I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

— Jane Horrocks

One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each…

— Bob Weir

I really try to find inspiration in all band's I've toured with because everyone's up there doing their own thing and captivating…

— Maria Brink

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

— Randy Jackson

When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a…

— Johnny Van Zant

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want, you know? Without…

— Jonathan Meiburg

But I can tell you that my favourite singer is Shania Twain and my favourite band is Lonestar.

— Matt Le Tissier

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're…

— Robert McKee

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth…

— Paul Zollo

I am an actor who sings off screen for another actor. That is what playback singing is all about.

— Kishore Kumar

There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.

— Michael Giacchino

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at…

— Petra Haden

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

— Dan Fogelberg

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they…

— Richard Wagner

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's…

— Angus Young

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

— Skepta

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there,…

— Vanessa Morgan

I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and…

— Sam McCandless

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

— Anonymous

Get to the point where the songs sum it all up, and creatively, I'm just like, 'This is it.' I've also learned…

— Big K.R.I.T

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

— Cynthia Ozick

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never…

— Erik Hassle

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds…

— Bill Bruford

I just sing. You have to use it.

— Aaron Neville

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish…

— Lebo Grand

I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that…

— Theresa Wayman

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

— Corey Haim

“Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly” is”

— Patrick Lencioni

You can either sing or you can't. And I'm one of the can'ts.

— Steph McGovern

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you…

— Luke Evans

“Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.”

— Ken Standley

Just because you have developed the craft on your instrument doesn't mean that you don't have the ability to be expressive emotionally…

— John Petrucci

I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me,…

— Martina McBride

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

— John Green