Music making Quotes · Page 45

I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do.

— Frankie Ballard

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

— Bill Hicks

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

— Marilyn Monroe

I just want to play music with a band, live.

— Jessica Mauboy

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity.

— Art Garfunkel

“See how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?”

— Dalton Trumbo

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

— Steve Lacy

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

— Jimmy Barnes

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound…

— Josh Groban

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

— Yannis Philippakis

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I…

— Ariel Pink

I always compare our music to a race car team. I told the band, 'You build the right car and I'll drive…

— Steve Harwell

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

— Nick Mason

Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands…

— Michael Sweet

“The eighties are a sorely underrated decade in terms of musical composition. They don’t get nearly the respect they deserve. I try…

— Emma Chase

“Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive…

— Steve Madison

If you go and watch a Coldplay show, Chris Martin used to be a little timid onstage, but now the success that…

— Matt Thiessen

I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and…

— Ed Robertson

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the…

— Kevin Richardson

I just find it weird if you're in a band and you don't know how to make it look the way it…

— Hunx

I'm that girl that's a hardcore musician and loves to sing and write and play instruments but, at the same time, loves…

— Christina Grimmie

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that…

— George Parsons Lathrop

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

— Ikue Mori

“I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.”

— Henry Miller

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play

— Yiddish Proverb

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

— Keith David

It is not easy to sing the way Karajan wants.

— Mirella Freni

I can be more real and more vulnerable when I sing.

— Tee Grizzley

Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

— Taraji P. Henson

I do the least 'working on myself' in our band.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

— Fantasia Barrino

I will work hard at honing my acting and singing.

— Seo In-guk

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

— Randy Jackson

For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table.

— M. Shadows

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

— Eric Andre

“Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism”

— Charmaine Smith Ladd

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

— Billy Corgan

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

— Alfredo Kraus