Music making Quotes · Page 34

We just want to be a band and play good music.

— Ronnie Van Zant

We used to really feel like the band was our family.

— Chris Frantz

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

— Chino Moreno

A band that cries together stays together.

— Karen Fairchild

Part of being in a band is getting better.

— Michael Bacon

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I get excited when I sing in a new language.

— Javed Ali

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

— Anne Bradstreet

Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.

— Robert Trujillo

Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play…

— Jaimoe

Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life…

— Ashley Roberts

We've met people who have been in bands for years and they have said things to us like 'You guys are doing…

— Calum Hood

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

— Isaac Hanson

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

— Joe Perry

To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort…

— Lisa Stansfield

Well obviously, when you're in a band you have to diplomatic about things. Everybody wants to put in their two cents and…

— Dino Cazares

It's interesting, there are a lot of similarities with being in the music business or being in a band, where a lot…

— Gerard Way

We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate's bedroom to a band that's doing extensive touring and…

— Bethany Cosentino

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot…

— Lewis Mumford

Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say "Well the album…

— DJ Spooky

Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But…

— Dave Gahan

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want, you know? Without…

— Jonathan Meiburg

When I'd go to karaoke, I'd pretend to do an Ariana Grande impression, or sing songs from Chicago as if I was…

— Ellie Rowsell

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

— Marilyn Monroe

I just want to play music with a band, live.

— Jessica Mauboy

I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do.

— Frankie Ballard

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

— Bill Hicks

The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.

— Danny Carey

My grandma used to sing. I feel like it's in our blood!

— Ava Max

I can be more real and more vulnerable when I sing.

— Tee Grizzley

Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

— Taraji P. Henson

I do the least 'working on myself' in our band.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

— Fantasia Barrino

I will work hard at honing my acting and singing.

— Seo In-guk

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play

— Yiddish Proverb

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

— Keith David

It is not easy to sing the way Karajan wants.

— Mirella Freni

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

— Jimmy Barnes

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

— Ikue Mori