Music making Quotes · Page 21

To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

— Maria Callas

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

— Kurt Elling

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

— Amy Ray

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

— Black Francis

Things I'm bad at: singing. Things I do a lot: sing.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

— Adrian Dunbar

I've always enjoyed singing as a hobby and an antidepressant.

— Jenny Ryan

I am going to sing into my 60s and 70s and 80s, if I can.

— Jamie Park

“I’m a one-man show. I need to start a band. You wanna join? Too bad! What about one-man band don’t you understand?”

— Jarod Kintz

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

— Duff McKagan

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

— Thomas Bernhard

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band…

— Steve Lukather

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

— Nastassja Kinski

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

— Chrissie Hynde

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

— Nick Cannon

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because…

— Curt Smith

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing…

— Robbie Robertson

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it…

— Lee Ranaldo

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky,…

— Holly Johnson

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive…

— Billy Bragg

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have…

— Caleb Shomo

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I…

— James Iha

The reason I wanted to play guitar was because I saw Buddy Holly and then our own homegrown Shadows on TV in…

— Peter Frampton

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

“He was improvising, playing the two of us like fine instruments.”

— Solace Ames

In the end, it's always about the three-piece band and the singer.

— John Waite

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

— Jay DeMarcus

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

— Dee Dee Ramone

Bad singing on a good song, makes a bad song.

— Melchor Lim

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

— Joan Baez

My band is stupid, and we're gonna continue to be stupid, I guess.

— John Dolmayan

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

— Francis Thompson

I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

— Sonny Sandoval

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

— Lauren Myracle

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

— Rhiannon Giddens

My favorite instrument is a bemrimbau. I play that every night.

— Max Cavalera

“Sing, if you can sing, and if not still be musical inside yourself.”

— Mary Oliver

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

— Ted Dwane