Music making Quotes · Page 146

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band…

— James Iha

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own…

— Kellin Quinn

We didn't say, 'Hey, we're gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,' or, 'We're gonna write an original song that has to…

— Zacky Vengeance

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get…

— Stephen Mangan

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

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

— Charlie Parker

I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something…

— Fred Armisen

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life,…

— Jorja Fox

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music…

— Ken Burns

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or…

— Moby

If I was Adele, I would rather sing

— Anonymous

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

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

— Yann Tiersen

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing,…

— Andrew Taylor

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad…

— Skylar Grey

Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a…

— Bonnie Raitt

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

— Robert Moog

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it…

— Annaleigh Ashford

If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and…

— Jacob Bannon

I'm not satisfied just being in a band.

— Steve Harwell

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

— Van Morrison

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But…

— Chad Kroeger

I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get…

— Fred Armisen

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

— Alison Croggon

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

— Marion Raven

I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before…

— Ahmet Ertegun

There are situations when, in your singing, in your interpretation of songs, for instance, when you want a straight tone. And I…

— Johnny Mathis

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

— Dreezy

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

— Kate Smith

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

— Jeff Ament

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

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

— Buddy Rich

My guitar playing was born from playing in my teenage heavy rock bands.

— Paul Gilbert

And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd…

— Annie Lennox

I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in…

— David Bryan

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

— Don McLean

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

— Doja Cat