Music making Quotes · Page 5

Drums were my first instrument.

— Dick Dale

You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.

— James Hetfield

Singing from the heart is my only goal.

— Neha Kakkar

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds

— Samuel Johnson

I enjoy everything about singing.

— Ankit Tiwari

The body is the instrument of the soul.

— Gary Zukav

I love to dance and sing.

— Erika Christensen

A good singer can sing anything.

— Anne Murray

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

— Dylan Moran

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

— Black Francis

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

— Amy Ray

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

— Kurt Elling

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

— Walt Whitman

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

— Toby Keith

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Oh, I'm not a very good singer, and that's 'cause I was always embarrassed about my singing.

— J. J. Cale

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a…

— Atif Aslam

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it…

— Jose Carreras

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

— Sebastian Bach

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

— M. Shadows

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been…

— Laura Marano

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

— Michael Giles

There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a…

— John Petrucci

When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and…

— Finn Andrews

These people that worked with my dad doing landscaping were in a grunge band so the music on the cover of Rolling…

— Phil Elverum

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

— Norah Jones

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved…

— Jack Garratt

People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really…

— Nomi Ruiz

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative…

— Ronnie Dunn

All music done, as I said, through low res mp3 and $5 earbuds and so I think as a producer or a…

— Butch Vig

Sing the song or keep it inside.

— Scott Weiland

Perception is made up of bands.

— Frederick Lenz

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

— Joey Kramer

We are a people's band.

— Ivan Moody

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

— Sara Paretsky

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

— Damian McGinty

I'm not satisfied just being in a band.

— Steve Harwell

I feel like I need to sing again.

— Peter Yarrow