Music making Quotes · Page 57

Touring is exciting, fun and the reason why you want to be in a band.

— Joe Casey

“I woke up to singing and found myself singing too”

— Don Piper

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

— Andrea Bocelli

We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

— James Mangold

In college, I totally took to rock. I played drums and sang with a band.

— KK

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

— Adam Jones

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

— Tama J. Kieves

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

— Glen Campbell

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

— Gerry Mulligan

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

— Charlie Watts

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

— Tom Jones

The 'Discovery' album is really complex and really rich and really full of instruments, different parts and stuff.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

— Stacy London

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

— Darrell Hammond

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

— Martin Heidegger

I wanna drive around the city with some friends in a convertable singing forever young.

— Anonymous

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already…

— Joan Baez

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music…

— John Debney

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing…

— William Singe

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a…

— Joe Elliott

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a…

— Joanna Newsom

The music on the radio is fine, it's just not my type of music. You don't play an instrument, and you don't…

— Elizabeth Gillies

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was…

— Kina Grannis

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and…

— Fred Armisen

If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.

— Zara Larsson

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

— Midge Ure

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

— Elizabeth Swados

I am jealous of people who can play instruments.

— Rekha

“Hawk and his band of not-so-merry men.”

— Kristen Ashley

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

— Shelby Lynne

I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .

— Niall Horan

I always wanted to sing but was too shy to do so.

— Saira Banu

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

— Doug Martsch

You know, unfortunately, when a band signs a contract, you're a commodity.

— Marky Ramone

I think anyone can actually sing. It's the mindset. Singing is imitation.

— MNEK

Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.

— Johnny Van Zant

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

— Ella Fitzgerald

For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.

— Andy Biersack

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

— Elena Roger