Music making Quotes · Page 54

Our body is our instrument so it's really important for us to treat it right.

— Avi Kaplan

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.

— Warren DeMartini

“Sing 'em to remember. Sing 'em because you remember.”

— Adrienne Kress

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

— Corey Haim

On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.

— David Bryan

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

— Waylon Jennings

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

— Johann Johannsson

Any chance I get to see a band that I like, I take it.

— Finn Wolfhard

I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that…

— Matt Skiba

I started in a band called Timbiriche, we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

— Paulina Rubio

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing…

— Ali Akbar Khan

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

— Angus Young

I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

— Tim Commerford

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

— Paul McCartney

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two…

— J. Cole

I think it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better…

— Jason C. Miller

That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped…

— Jimmy Page

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs -…

— Marion Raven

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,…

— Dr. John

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick…

— Tommy Chong

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music.…

— Yelawolf

Most of the time, I'll be conducting the orchestra, but there will be some pieces that I'll be playing an instrument as…

— Ramin Djawadi

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing…

— Isadora Duncan

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

— Matthew Ramsey

We got famous off singing about a chicken.

— Sean Kinney

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

— Rick Astley

I love any TV show that has to do with singing.

— Phoebe Robinson

We're a contemporary band with retro influences.

— Steve Harwell

I've never written to a band since the Beatles. Since the Dave Clark Five!

— Elizabeth Fraser

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

— Landon Liboiron

I really like singing, although I'm embarrassed about doing it.

— Hannah Murray

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

— Doja Cat

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

— Lupe Fiasco

“I am only an idea, a requirement breathed to life-an instrument. A tool.”

— Dawn Metcalf

I just try to sing every song with sincerity.

— Mohit Chauhan

Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

— Millie Bobby Brown

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can make Romance!

— Macho Man Randy Savage

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

— Michel Martelly

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

— Corin Nemec