Music making Quotes · Page 48

I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an…

— Karan Singh Grover

Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on…

— Tito Jackson

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it…

— Alison Krauss

I should have been a rock star. But I can't sing.

— Gia Carangi

When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities -…

— Charice Pempengco

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

— Yanni

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

— Evan Dando

“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a…

— Patrick Stump

An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of…

— Peter London

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It…

— Kevin Jonas

We're not here as a black band playing white string band music. You know, we play stuff in the Appalachians, we play…

— Rhiannon Giddens

“It was like... like singing. From my hand.”

— brandon sanderson

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

— Jisoo

He's the song in the car I keep singing. Dont know why I do.

— Taylor Swift

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

— Paul Rodgers

When I can see people see me sing, I get adrenaline.

— Naomi Ackie

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

— Jade Thirlwall

Spending eight to ten hours every single day practicing the instrument, starting from an early age, makes an instrumentalist spend his/her lifetime…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some…

— Carla Azar

They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of…

— Simon Cowell

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of…

— Lenny Kravitz

Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that's a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a…

— Scarface

You've got to learn your instrument.

— Charlie Parker

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

— Don Henley

My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad…

— Sam Fender

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

— Brian Setzer

Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at…

— Jeremy Enigk

I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn't work out. I didn't have the patience to write…

— Prateik Babbar

There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do…

— Julien Baker

You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.

— James Acaster

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly,…

— Mike McCready

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so…

— Bethany Joy Lenz

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever…

— Norah Jones

We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a…

— Penn Dayton Badgley

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I…

— Kathleen Hanna

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing…

— Chris Martin

Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A…

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

— Kevin James

Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

— Walt Mossberg

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

— Justin Adams