Music making Quotes · Page 40

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

— Scotty Moore

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus

It's important to tour with bands that you get along with.

— Sonny Sandoval

“Always yearn to be an instrument for the Kingdom”

— Sunday Adelaja

We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.

— Winston Marshall

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

— John Oates

I grew up dancing and singing and I just love everything about that.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

I'm a singer, not a talker I took singing lessons, not talking lessons.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

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

The songs my band and I like to sing - the songs that the room will erupt for - are '90s hits,…

— Ross Lynch

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

— Kate Smith

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

— Erol Alkan

The songs resonate with a positive hue. That's a positive thing. People feel good singing 'Sing a Song' or 'Shining Star.'

— Philip Bailey

While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you…

— Nuno Bettencourt

I can't sing. So if I ever tell you that I'm singing tell me to stop!! You might go deaf..:P

— Anonymous

That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like…

— Chad Smith

It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not…

— Robert Davi

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of…

— Joachim-Ernst Berendt

When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player.…

— Bryce Dessner

With 'Game of Thrones,' the most dominant instrument would definitely be the cello. That's something I just felt really captured the mood…

— Ramin Djawadi

In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people…

— Elizabeth Berkley

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer…

— Tom Waits

The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon…

— Paul Gilbert

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound,…

— Cecilia Bartoli

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

— Alex Kapranos

I'm bored of just being in a band and touring.

— Hunx

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

— Tammin Sursok

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

— David Thibodeau

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

— Javed Ali

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

— Miles Teller

The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

— Nick Mason

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

— Matt Tong

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

— Trent Reznor

I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun.

— Jon Pardi

We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.

— John Rzeznik

And he just kept on singing. Singing clear and strong.

— Roberta Flack

I should have been a rock star. But I can't sing.

— Gia Carangi

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

— Chuck Inglish

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

— Max Tundra

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

— Deep Roy