Music making Quotes · Page 15

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

— Meat Loaf

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to…

— James Iha

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

— Miguel Ferrer

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

— Evan Esar

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

— Matt Tong

Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view.…

— Benny Goodman

I've never wanted to do something that wouldn't be fulfilling, so behind the music and the singing, I love being happy.

— Benson Boone

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my…

— Sia Furler

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

— Bruce Dickinson

I sing the music I like.

— Sonu Kakkar

We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.

— Trey Anastasio

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

— Darrell Hammond

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

— Brendon Urie

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn…

— Billy Eckstine

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his…

— Joyce Rupp

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

— Bad Bunny

You know, we're a hard working band but we don't ever take it for granted.

— Maria Brink

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

— Martin Kemp

Band director: Tromboners, remember to be in the right position. Trumpeters, finger fast and blow hard.

— Alec Straub

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on…

— Dan Hicks

But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me,…

— Peter Frampton

My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.

— Michael Jackson

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

— May Sarton

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

— Sharon Van Etten

Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.

— Adam F. Goldberg