Music making Quotes · Page 33

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

— Isabel Allende

I do really love singing. It's something that I have always liked to do.

— Erica Cerra

When I can see people see me sing, I get adrenaline.

— Naomi Ackie

All I ever wanted to do was be in a band.

— Andy Biersack

Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

— Walter Becker

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

— Bonnie Raitt

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

— Janet Jackson

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

— Phil Lesh

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand…

— Mats Wilander

I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.

— David Bryan

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along…

— Audra McDonald

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

— Lars Ulrich

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

You know, I've always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.

— Gina Schock

I think for a band like us, we're all really close friends. We grew up and went to school together. We're not…

— Luke Hemmings

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men…

— Sia

When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole…

— Jason Reeves

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in…

— Ed Droste

You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting…

— Andy Summers

I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit…

— Mitchell Joachim

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together…

— Roger Andrew Taylor

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is…

— Luc Ferrari

But I think what makes a band great is that you're not trying to be someone else ever. At no point do…

— Derek Trucks

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on…

— Steve Swallow

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

— Willie Nelson

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

— Yo-Yo Ma

“Names do not know how to sing, although they sometimes sound glorious.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I know I can sing; I can sing, and I like how I sound.

— Jorja Smith

Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?

— Alex Rodriguez

All the best bands have to have more than just one strong songwriter.

— Kim Shattuck

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

— Bruno Mars

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

— Winston Marshall

I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.

— Sara Evans

Never too poor. You don't have to be a millionaire to pick up an instrument.

— Anonymous

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

— Billy Corgan

I've always had a fascination for instruments.

— Koffee

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

— John Deacon

Do you have a band aid? Cuz I scraped my knee falling for you

— Jazz

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

— Georgie Fame

“The instrument to break our ego is known as worldly life!”

— Dada Bhagwan