Music making Quotes · Page 44

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

— Rob Halford

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

— Elvis Presley

We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.

— Joel Madden

I really can't imagine not singing again.

— Shania Twain

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

— Jake Shears

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

— Neil Young

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.

— Jac Holzman

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

— Courtney Hadwin

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what…

— Taylor Momsen

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

— Billie Holiday

Its your wish to be an instrument of change or an observer of change. I'll rather be an instrument of change.

— Melchor Lim

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of…

— R. Kelly

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

— Wynton Marsalis

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

— Clarence Clemons

“Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?”

— Dada Bhagwan

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

— Eric Carmen

Usually we're always working on something with this band a tour, making an album or a video or whatever. I don't have…

— Dusty Hill

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted…

— Natalie MacMaster

To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if…

— John Congleton

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.…

— Wayne Kramer

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to…

— Petra Haden

There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who…

— David Cross

There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and as the crowds started to get bigger, it…

— Noel Gallagher

I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All…

— Henry Rollins

Playback singing has always been my dream.

— Meghana Raj

I play in a band called 'Moi non plus' with some friends.

— Pihla Viitala

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

— Jay Presson Allen

No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

— Amy Macdonald

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

— Paul Weller

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

— Kevin Richardson

My singing is inspirational. When I sing, the people around me sing louder.

— Rock Cowles

You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.

— Jade Thirlwall

I think I just really, really love singing.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

— Dolly Parton

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music

— Phil Anselmo

I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

— Joe Casey

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

— Paul Gauguin

Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

— Woody Herman

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

— John Updike

“You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!”

— Ahmed Mostafa