Music making Quotes · Page 35

I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to…

— Kurt Elling

I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be…

— Mark Foster

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

— Thomas Beecham

All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to…

— John 5

I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of…

— Martin Gore

When I was young, and I would see bands playing, I would dig the rock & roll and get excited, but when…

— Angus Young

We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that…

— Alasdair MacLean

When I first started playing, I plunked away just like everyone else. During the Sixties I played in a blues band for…

— Allan Holdsworth

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together…

— Randy Bachman

“A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller".”

— John Green

“Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come…

— Charles Carleton Coffin

I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once…

— Jamie Lidell

I think musically, there's always the stuff you're into that you've always been into but every once in a while there's a…

— Dusty Redmon

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went…

— Z'EV

We're not just R&B guys. We can do pop, rock, blues . . . a wide variety. We are musicians and play…

— Damon Thomas

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without…

— Nicolas Jaar

“Do the dead sing? Do they love?”

— Stephen King

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

— Mandy Moore

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed…

— Saffron Burrows

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player…

— Lou Gramm

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

— Rivers Cuomo

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

— St. Vincent

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can…

— Bill Walton

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

— Igor Levit