Music making Quotes · Page 42

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

— Andy Summers

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

— William James

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

— Alex Winston

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

— Billy Squier

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

— Paul Rodgers

Church singing is a great training ground.

— Morgan Neville

The piano is such a timeless instrument.

— Ramin Djawadi

When I was a kid I loved to sing, that's all I did.

— Tevin Campbell

I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

— Sturgill Simpson

I'm trying to get better at singing. I just want to be great vocally on stage so I can give fans a…

— Bryson Tiller

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think…

— Graham Coxon

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail…

— Cassandra Wilson

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part…

— DJ Spooky

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

— Mandy Moore

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because…

— Jamila Woods

The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light,…

— Jennifer Warnes

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music…

— Ken Burns

I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to…

— Michael Angelo Batio

That's the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I'm not only the guitar player. I'm the background singer, and so…

— Paul Gilbert

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can…

— Miles Davis

I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If…

— Brian Eno

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do…

— Katey Sagal

I sing too much for someone who can't sing.

— Anonymous

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

— Les Claypool

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

— Ernest Mandel

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

— Kelli O'Hara

“Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music”

— Matt Bellamy

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

— Aurora Aksnes

It's important to have a life outside the band.

— Liam Payne

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

— Andres Segovia

We want to embrace the younger crowds and get them to embrace instruments.

— Martie Maguire

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

— Amy Winehouse

There's trials and tribulations in a band.

— David Bryan

“How I would sing like a kettle to keep you”

— Kevin Young

Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.

— Winston Marshall

Steely Dan is a band I'm not that into. Well, I guess I like certain singles.

— David Longstreth

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

— Chester Bennington

I'm used to being in a band and collaborating.

— Shavo Odadjian