Music making Quotes · Page 22

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

— Hozier

There's no such thing as a lead singer in our band.

— Steve Lukather

I play in a band called Hellyeah, and I really love doing it.

— Vinnie Paul

A show is all about a shared energy between the kids and the band.

— Gabe Saporta

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

— Tod Machover

“Wat happens in the band room stays in the band room”

— John Green

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

— Dave Matthews

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

— Travis Barker

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell…

— Thea Gilmore

Nother racist band. I have no part I want nohing to do with them. The drummer has just been arrested for ummm…

— Oliver Sykes

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I…

— Joe Perry

Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!

— Neale Donald Walsch

We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would…

— Bryce Dessner

“I want to play you…” He pressed his forehead to mine, closing his eyes. “I want to play your body like an…

— J.M. Warwick

The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to…

— William Shakespeare

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion…

— Brian McKnight

There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without…

— Pedro Almodovar

Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument…

— Cassandra Clare

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in…

— Cornelius Eady

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what…

— Mother Teresa

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I…

— George Benson

At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like…

— Jon Pareles

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

— Johannes Kepler

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.

— Tia Carrere

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

It's not an easy thing to manage - school and being in a band.

— Soccer Mommy

Sex is the instrument and love the music.

— Isabel Allende

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower,

— Jessica Pare

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

— Leona Lewis

I know nothing other than singing and I feel blessed.

— Javed Ali

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

— Tom Anderson

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

— Jonathan King

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

— Vladimir Horowitz

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

— Floor Jansen

I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.

— Mike McCready

I've been singing, literally, since I was born.

— James Charles

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

— Pam Dawber

I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.

— Rene Marie