Music making Quotes · Page 53

There was no way I was gonna be in a band and show my face.

— Shawn Crahan

“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really? How did that happen?’ ‘it all just…

— Francine Rivers

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

— Anonymous

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

— Loretta Lynn

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero

A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.

— Lil Baby

“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.”

— robert m drake

I sing and dance. That's my job.

— Dick Van Dyke

The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not…

— Tamaryn

The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way…

— Jon Bellion

The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional…

— Rokia Traore

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I want to sing because I want to sing.

— Trisha Yearwood

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

— Francis of Assisi

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were…

— Travis Barker

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to…

— Ezra Furman

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.

— Ashton Irwin

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

— Kristin Hersh

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner…

— Ernest Newman

Id just been singing all the time. Id been singing at like my friends club nights and at parties and with improvised…

— Florence And The Machine

There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

— Max Martin

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

As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night…

— Martin Kemp

“He had learned to play his instrument with the same joyless precision that barefoot waifs exercised in stoking the coal fires of…

— Glen David Gold

Playback singing is fun and good money. But it's no big art really; only the film and record people glorify it with…

— Kishore Kumar

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

— Grace Chatto

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use,…

— Liz Phair

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my…

— Rabindranath Tagore

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and…

— Gord Downie

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is…

— Brian Wilson

Nobody has one band anymore. They've got two and three and four!

— Martie Maguire

Being in a band is like a marriage because you have to care about everybody because you're all living together.

— Susan Tedeschi

Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.'…

— Kristian Bush

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't…

— Julia Holter

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to…

— Eric Clapton

I think I do better when I sing.

— Ella Fitzgerald

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

— Charles Bronson

I have a reputation for not turning up to sing. It's something I want very badly to get rid of.

— Nico