Music making Quotes · Page 41

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.

— Martin Freeman

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

— Carrie Brownstein

I was even more country in my college-band days.

— Jon Pardi

When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.

— Shirley Bassey

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

— George Stevens

Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

— Walt Mossberg

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

— Park Chan-wook

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

— Noel Redding

We Are Not Canceling Our October Tour, The Band Is Not Breaking Up, We Are All Alive.

— Joey Jordison

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to…

— Ray Charles

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

— Rodney Yee

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my…

— Terence Lewis

Smooth mellow vibes that touch the soul I love listening to instrumentals I love real hiphop.

— Anonymous

Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours…

— Robert Fripp

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,…

— Edward Abbey

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't…

— Zacky Vengeance

“The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the…

— Ben Fountain

What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And…

— Kathleen Hanna

It's a misconception that singers in Punjab use music as a backup in case their acting fails. For me, singing is the…

— Diljit Dosanjh

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or…

— C. V. Raman

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach.…

— Anonymous

“The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you”

— Sunday Adelaja

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

— Jon Pardi

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

— Howard Shore

I can't sing anything other than country!

— Joe Nichols

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

— Anonymous

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

— Anais Nin

I'm always with my band; they're my best friends.

— Sigrid

I enjoy singing with a band playing behind me.

— Hope Sandoval

Later when I was in Mithibai College, Mumbai, I was a singer for a rock band.

— Madhura Naik

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

— Alan Villiers

I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'

— Carmen Electra

I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.

— Donna Douglas

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.

— Joe Mande

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

— Bruce Springsteen

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

— Alexander Ludwig

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

— Billy Gibbons