Music making Quotes · Page 203

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