Music making Quotes · Page 43

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

— Giles Duley

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

— Henry Rollins

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

— Sebastian Bach

I've been blessed to be able to sing and perform.

— Vera Lynn

I should have been singing since I was 10 years old.

— Divine

The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.

— James Murphy

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

— Mac Miller

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

— Matt Berninger

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I…

— Alison Moyet

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love…

— Benji Madden

For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.

— Jani Lane

It's a really unique experience to have a band that's a 12 piece working together as one mind.

— Susan Tedeschi

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is…

— Steve Vai

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on…

— Ruben Blades

I was more into music, before I got into college. In high school, I used to play guitar and sing. I did…

— Steven Yeun

At The Verve's first-ever gig, I said that we were gonna blow this local band off the stage. It was only in…

— Richard Ashcroft

I did not dream of being an entertainer in the sense of being the one out front. I dreamed of being in…

— Too Short

I don't necessarily enjoy playing concerts, although that has gotten more fun with a band. But the one thing I always have…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't…

— Chris Cornell

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession…

— David Gordon Green

I work with this wonderful five-piece band, The Tony Guerrero Quintet, along with Kate Flannery, who was Meredith the Drunk in The…

— Jane Lynch

Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent.…

— Barack Obama

I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.

— Lou Gramm

Subtle Pride is an improvisational voice band.

— Brigette Lundy-Paine

“I am the instrument of my own destruction.”

— Veronica Roth

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

— Stewart Copeland

In the long term, we want to become a band that everybody remembers.

— Jisoo

Not everybody can sing - that's something I have.

— Nicky Jam

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls

— Simon Le Bon

I started singing because I come from Wales

— Bryn Terfel

The main thing is that this band keeps going.

— Jerry Only

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

— Chad Smith

There was no way I was gonna be in a band and show my face.

— Shawn Crahan

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

I want to be in the best band in the world again.

— Liam Gallagher

You are the instrument of your own illumination.

— Vivian Gornick

I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.

— Jake Busey

I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.

— Luis Fonsi