Music making Quotes · Page 38

I feel freedom in singing and performing.

— Dana Reeve

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.

— David Draiman

Keeping a band together is more work than anybody will ever tell you.

— Mike Campbell

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

— Iris Murdoch

“Work is an instrument through which you build yourself”

— Sunday Adelaja

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

— Greg Saunier

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

— Beck

Weve always done a bunch of musically diverse things. We were just showing a broader side of the band, the more melodic…

— Dimebag Darrell

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

— Steven Tyler

When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.

— Ian Gillan

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in…

— Wallace Shawn

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able…

— Bruce Springsteen

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,…

— George Brecht

“The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to…

— Annie Dillard

I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of…

— Patti Smith

I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the…

— Jonny Greenwood

“How is slippery ice like music? A: If you don’t C sharp, you’ll B flat. Q: How do you make a band…

— Joe Kozlowski

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I…

— Jim Capaldi

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about…

— Flea

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find…

— Jerry Harrison

There's some songs you write like you would write for a four- or five-piece band. But there are times when you start…

— Derek Trucks

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do.…

— Jeff Rosenstock

We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.

— Keren Woodward

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

— Celia Cruz

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

— Wayne Dyer

I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.

— Taylor Momsen

We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

— Charles Bronson

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

— Tony Blair

I want to be the first rock band on Mars.

— Kate Pierson

At the end of the day, I love singing, whatever the style might be.

— Neha Kakkar

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

— Gloria Estefan

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

— Matthew Ramsey

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

— Louisa May Alcott

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

Singing has an impact on the human body.

— Alison Sudol

I never wanted to be in a heavy-metal band.

— Shavo Odadjian

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

— John Entwistle