Music making Quotes · Page 26

We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

— The Rev

“Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

— Anderson East

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

— Placido Domingo

As an actor, your body is an instrument.

— Stacy Martin

It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

— Joe Williams

I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

— Tom Odell

I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse…

— Denis Leary

This isnt music and were not a band. Were five middle fingers on a mother f**kin hand.

— Marilyn Manson

When you open for a band, you don't play one of their songs. You just don't do that.

— Shavo Odadjian

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they…

— Pamela Anderson

I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a…

— David First

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

— Sonny Bono

Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands…

— Michael Sweet

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I…

— Ariel Pink

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my…

— Holly Near

“(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of sings (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We…

— James Joyce

“In one room the carpet had been rolled back, and a hunchback wearing a velvet smoking-jacket was playing an accordion, writhing backwards…

— Anthony Powell

And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where…

— Laura Bell Bundy

After leaving my old band, Invictory, my good friend Brayden Pierce asked me to play guitar for his solo project which evolved…

— Tom Sandoval

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I…

— Paulina Rubio

At the time of 'The Epic,' as a core band, we were all spending so much time apart making music for other…

— Kamasi Washington

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain…

— James Lane Allen

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

— Glenn Miller

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

— Van Morrison

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

— Elizabeth Bowen

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

— Patterson Hood

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

— James Young

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

— Mavis Staples

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

— Bill Bruford

~My favorite Person of my Favorite Band~

— She's_gone

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

— Dan Auerbach

Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

— Andy Gilbert

People don't necessarily know who I am. Some people think Bonobo is a band.

— Bonobo

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

— Nick Cave

I've been having singing lessons whenever I can fit them in.

— Gemma Collins

This ain't no fucking sing-along so, girl, what you singing for?

— The Weeknd

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

— Jason Bonham