Music making Quotes · Page 20

We are indeed a party band.

— James Righton

I just sing. You have to use it.

— Aaron Neville

I love singing just for my own benefit.

— Miranda Kerr

I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

— Steven Wright

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

— Billy Corgan

I started in blues bands when I was 15.

— David Essex

“...you play the instrument you have.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

— Alia Shawkat

I never wanted to be a solo artist. I always wanted to be in a band.

— Mike Campbell

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

— Lenny Kravitz

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up

— Mick Taylor

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

— Lenny Kravitz

“I'm cool either way, I just need to know which instrument to pull out.”

— S.C. Stephens

We want to be considered a band, like Maroon 5 or Coldplay.

— Kevin Olusola

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

— Steven Tyler

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that…

— Stella McCartney

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

— Kate Smith

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

— Miles Davis

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

— Annaleigh Ashford

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

— Richard Strauss

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all…

— Patrick Wolf

Singing is something I've always loved - I'm not sure what I would do without it!

— Kate Nash

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

— Nicolas Cage

There's this thing where Asian parents force you to play an instrument at an early age, but god forbid you like it…

— Michelle Zauner

It's very tempting for certain generations to say, 'Well, I just want to be in a band, and I want to be…

— Rob Halford

I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The…

— Mac DeMarco

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

— Fred Armisen

I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of…

— Robert Sheehan

I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once…

— Jamie Lidell

The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet…

— Zephaniah

“You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music,…

— Gordon Korman

Handcrafted friendship Band made by myself for my friend.

— Bilal

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

— Adam Jones

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

— Noel Coward

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

— Ringo Starr

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

— Toby Keith

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

— Walt Whitman

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

— Dylan Moran

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

— Mahatma Gandhi