Music making Quotes · Page 51

“I love music, but I can't sing a note.”

— Haruki Murakami

You have to have Beef on you, if your going to sing for a career

— Anonymous

“Just sing me your song. Teach me the words. Tell me what you know.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

— Wynton Marsalis

I've always respected and taken care of my instrument.

— Dianne Reeves

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

— Jeff Ament

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

— brandon sanderson

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

— Fred Allen

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

— Chrissie Hynde

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

— Nick Cannon

“I’m a one-man show. I need to start a band. You wanna join? Too bad! What about one-man band don’t you understand?”

— Jarod Kintz

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

— Duff McKagan

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

— Thomas Bernhard

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

— Richard Strauss

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all…

— Patrick Wolf

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where…

— Bryan Adams

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of…

— Noah Baumbach

We had a band with our parents called Rockenhaim and we only played covers and our first gig was at a deli…

— Alana Haim

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking…

— James Young

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a…

— Billy Ray Cyrus

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his…

— Joyce Rupp

For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai,…

— Jillian Hervey

Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because…

— Frederick Wiseman

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

— William James

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

— Ethan Hawke

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

— Rod Parsley

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

My Band, Pierce the Arrow, is my other passion along with acting.

— Tom Sandoval

Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

— Mike Huckabee

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

— Mel Torme

I'm a guy who's passionate about singing, but I can't sing for crap.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

— Dan Fogelberg

I don't want to be part of a band unless it's fun.

— Charlotte Caffey

Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

— Michael Vick

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

— Holly Johnson

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

— Alex Kapranos

I sing in the reaches. We'll see what we find

— Moby

We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

— Gary Rossington