Music making Quotes · Page 49

We're never lumped in as being an L.A. band in any kind of context.

— Russell Mael

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

— Jessie J

I have too much work as a composer to concentrate on singing.

— Himesh Reshammiya

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

— Paul Weller

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

— Billy Ocean

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

— Mustard

We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.

— Gord Downie

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

— Flea

On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.

— Zacky Vengeance

Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.

— Brian Fallon

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

— Martha Graham

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

— Kim Shattuck

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet…

— Roger Daltrey

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise…

— Paul Simon

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I…

— Joe Perry

Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!

— Neale Donald Walsch

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records…

— Colin Greenwood

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the…

— Jason Mraz

The rhythm, the sounds, the tonality, the chord sequences, the individual effect of each instrument and each section of the band -…

— Fela Kuti

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending…

— Nile Rodgers

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted…

— Daniel Johns

The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part…

— Eddie Pepitone

We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this…

— Carey Mercer

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had…

— Griffin Dunne

I really want to evolve as a band with our sound.

— Calum Hood

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

— Alia Shawkat

I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

— Darius Rucker

I was in the marching band and I liked nerdy things.

— Taylor Hill

Im in the kitchen, yams everywhere. Just made a jugg I got bands everywhere.

— 2 Chainz

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

— Matt Bellamy

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

— Matt Berninger

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

— Jerry Harrison

There are probably limits on what the choir can sing well.

— Mack Wilberg

My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

— Bryce Dessner

I chose producing because I didn't know how to play any instruments.

— Smokepurpp

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

— Gary Lineker

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

— Paul McCartney

I forgot that being in a band was this much fun.

— Ryan Ross

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

— Jackie Evancho

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

— Kip Winger