Music making Quotes · Page 209

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want…

— Yanni

If you still wanna change everything still sing .

— Abdulrahman ElTohami

“You want to fuck the singer, but you would suck on any of them. A rim job, a piss shower, wouldn't matter.…

— Amanda Boyden

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

— Simon Le Bon

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

— Plato

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

— Jeremih

I started off making beats when I was like 12. Then when I linked with people who make beats full time, I…

— Brent Faiyaz

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

— Steven Wright

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound…

— Brian Chippendale

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to…

— Fred Armisen

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

— Miranda Kerr

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

— Vinnie Vincent

Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to…

— James Murphy

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing…

— Caroline Polachek

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

— Chino Moreno

You have to be able to relate to what you're singing otherwise you're just a mannequin.

— Sarah Harding

I never do karaoke. I don't enjoy singing to be honest.

— David Essex

When you have nothing to say, sing it.

— David Ogilvy

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure…

— Evan Parker

All the words will bleed from me and I will sing no more

— The White Stripes

“As we walk across the oval afterwards - the Goth, the beauty queen and the fat country girl - I can feel…

— Pip Harry

Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is…

— Steve Nash

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than…

— Chris Cornell

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in…

— Ted Leo

My advice would be to take time with the music and writing, rather than just getting a song done, really thrown together,…

— Brendon Urie