Music making Quotes · Page 49

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the…

— Eddie Vedder

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

— Dusty Hill

Your more a God to me than anyone who believes in something invisible. You have always been there for me through your…

— Timothy Ashmore

Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be…

— Rumi

Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.

— Harold Klemp

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it…

— Steve Berlin

I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all…

— Kirsten Lepore

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

We Are Not Canceling Our October Tour, The Band Is Not Breaking Up, We Are All Alive.

— Joey Jordison

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

— Tove Lo

“We're a symphony--our limbs and lips and skin making up the instruments, working together to create a beautiful piece of music.”

— Julie Cross

This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal…

— Mikey Way

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know…

— Travis Morrison

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

I've always had a good time in bands, and when I wasn't having a good time, I left.

— Peter Frampton

I'm just grateful. I'm grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I'm grateful to be in a band of brothers…

— Coy Bowles

I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place…

— No I.D

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

— William Shakespeare

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

— Ted Lange

When you do watch a band that are actually playing their parts, that's so fun to watch.

— Ellie Rowsell

“And sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to, I thought to myself: I remember. This…

— Graham Greene

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living…

— Kassie DePaiva

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz…

— Jeremih

I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front…

— Todd Lowe

I do love music and I did actually have my own band once. It was a rap band. I was eight and…

— Nicole Richie