Music making Quotes · Page 52

In my opinion, anybody can sing. If they have a voice, they must sing.

— Asha Bhosle

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

— Toyotomi Hideyoshi

It was tough to end a band that you've been in for 10 years.

— James Righton

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

— Anonymous

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

— Elijah Wood

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

— Graham Coxon

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

— Grace Chatto

Band shuts down at two but we're hangin' out till three.

— Trace Adkins

Singing is something I've always loved - I'm not sure what I would do without it!

— Kate Nash

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

— Nicolas Cage

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it…

— Annaleigh Ashford

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

— Miles Davis

The band is all about 'party'; we're a glam band. To turn it into something else... it hasn't worked.

— Jani Lane

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

— Anonymous

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that…

— Stella McCartney

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

— Kate Smith

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was,…

— Dick Dale

The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to…

— Ben Gibbard

In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to…

— Walt Whitman

My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family…

— Alan Arkin

My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I…

— Meredith Monk

One of the instruments that really stuck out to me was the talking drum, which is basically the first type of communication…

— Ludwig Goransson

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his…

— Molly Ringwald

I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing…

— Bryce Dessner

I started singing when I started talking.

— Mariah Carey

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

— Parineeti Chopra

You can only really sing about what you know; at least, I can.

— Mark Lanegan

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

— Luciano Pavarotti

You don't need a band to do hip-hop; you only need a DJ.

— The-Dream

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

— Julian Bream

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

— Anonymous

The singing was something I got from my father.

— Woody Herman

My voice isn't an instrument I can just hang up on a hook.

— Audra McDonald

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

— T E Kalem

“snarling like a chainsaw trying to sing opera”

— Seanan McGuire

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

— William Westmoreland

Being in a band is the best job in the world!

— Tom Fletcher

The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.

— Keshia Chante

I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I've been singing since I could talk correctly.

— Khalid