Music making Quotes · Page 213

“I want you, Sancho, to think well and to have a good opinion of plays, and to be equally well-disposed toward those…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I don't necessarily enjoy playing concerts, although that has gotten more fun with a band. But the one thing I always have…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If…

— Brian Eno

When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from…

— Labrinth

The music I'm playing now is the music I always imagined myself playing when I was a kid. It's been nice to…

— Marika Hackman

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got…

— Anonymous

My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you…

— Oliver Sykes

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

— Curt Smith

Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met.

— Susanna Phillips

“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure,…

— Honore de Balzac

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you…

— Dee Dee Ramone

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

— Andy Summers

I sing better when I drum.

— G Flip

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

— Taryn Manning

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

— Travis Barker

I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico…

— Carl Wilson

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,…

— Edward Abbey

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

— David Byrne

My band, Pierce the Arrow, started with the singer Brayden as an acoustic act. After having just left my previous band InVictory,…

— Tom Sandoval

I like most bands.

— Steve Miller

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

— Madchen Amick

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

— Michael Anthony

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead -…

— Danny Barker

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career…

— Adrian Smith

Got a band-aid on my face cause I'm just that cool!!!

— Anonymous